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Ces dernières semaines durant mon développement ou autour d’un autre binôme à Pyxis, j’ai été confronté à cette discussion qui trainait et qui au final ralentissait le développement :Membre de l’équipe 1 : A ton avis, c’est un test d’int…

The key to gmail describes what sh*t umbrellas are at google :

as a shit umbrella, the product managers protect the engineers from getting distracted. It’s not enough to be a “shit funnel” where they would pass some of the junk down to engineers, they need to fully protect the engineers.

No wonder google engineers accomplish great […]

Slashdot runs a story about Microsoft employees preferring to use the iPhone over Microsoft alternatives.

Even though it might be a good idea to always eat your own dog food, the simple fact that your employees prefer the available alternatives is worth taking into consideration. Indeed, the motivation behind eating your own dogfood is to get […]

A new concept for the modern IDE, Code Bubbles allows developers to see and work different fragments of code as one unit. Debugging sessions can be associated with those units save and retrieved later for continued work. Quite impressive! It’s really a departure from the IDEs we’ve been using so …

Martin Fowler published an informal survey of version control tools among Thoughtworkers. Of course, the big winner is git, and anyone who has been going through the effort of learning it correctly would confirm.

BTW, if you want some help convincing people that git is better, do not hesitate to take a look at why git […]

As I explained in a previous post, Domain-driven Design (DDD) is a design principle I strongly believe in.

With more and more evidence of systems/companies switching to NoSQL for scalability reasons, creating a rich  domain model becomes less and less of an option if you don’t want to shoot yourself in the foot. Indeed, while traditional […]

Welcome additions in Sonar 2.0

There is a constant about Software Developers : they love debating and arguing about every single aspect of the development process. Moreover they will most likely debate forever because there is usually nothing that can serve as a reference to tell good and bad practices apart. Want to know why ? Well.. everyone is making […]

Le dernier podcast Vox Agile vient tout juste de sortir! Avec Éric Mignot et Emmanuel Gaillot, VoxAgile aborde le concept de la dette d’entreprise au niveau des valeurs, de la mission et de l’objectif commun de celles-ci. Entre autres, les sujets suivants sont discutés: Comment déterminer l’actif d’une entreprise au …

So…. you’ve been developing serious Java applications for quite a few years now, and while it was fun and enjoyable to discover the best practices, the misc. tools, how the messy fragmented ecosystem of frameworks and libraries  hardly wonderfully integrates thanks to amazing JEE-whatever integration stacks (Spring, no pun intended), you now feel that the […]