Linux Kernel development process in a nutshell
I came across Linux Kernel development, a paper from the Linux Foundation that highlights a few important facts about the kernel development process. This nicely complements a few of my previous posts :
Maximum numbers of developers on a project
Surviving with many patches
What Thoughtworkers think of git
On real meritocracy
Open Source is not a democracy
A few interesting […]
Pyxis Technologies joins The Inner Circle partnership program
By 2012, agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects (Gartner “Predict 2010: Agile and Cloud Impact Application Development Directions”). Pyxis Technologies develops tools that help Agile teams deliver successful projects. Pyxis Technologies announced that it has been selected to join Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio …
OSGi-enterprise related open source projects
First, here is an introduction to what OSGi-enterprise means.
Second, here are a set of OSGI-enterprise implementations :
Apache Aries : sponsored by IBM and SAP
Eclipse gemini : sponsored by Oracle and SpringSource
Eclipse virgo : donated by SpringSource (formerly known as spring-DM) – reference implementation of OSGI enterprise)
On a totally unrelated note, please take a look at […]
François Beauregard co-animera un retour d’expérience sur le “dojo de programmation” le 24 mars à Agile Montréal
Retour d’expérience sur l’approche du “dojo de programmation” par des développeurs à Hydro-Québec L’Agilité nous a appris l’amélioration continue. Le “dojo de programmation” applique ce concept à la formation et au développement des compétences. Plutôt qu’une formation ponctuelle et magistrale, on inscrit notre formation dans un processus continu où l’on …
Je mocke, tu mockes, il mocke… nous loupons un refactoring
Avant de mocker un composant, assurez vous que les difficultés que vous rencontrez à le tester ne proviennent pas du composant lui même. PS : Je sais c’est court mais je crois que c’est pertinent et que le message passera mieux. D’autant que je…
An example of not applying the repair rule principle
Errors should never pass describes the case of AppArmour which fails to follow the Rule of Repair. In this particular case, AppArmor could not make sense of the user (config) input – and thus cannot repair the data-, so it should fail as noisily and as soon as possible to prevent debugging nightmares.
Grails is another […]
Pyxis entreprise du mois de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Laval
Pyxis a été nommée entreprise du mois. François a reçu le trophée des mains de la présidente lors du midi-conférence de la Chambre hier. Il trône dans notre accueil… merci à la CCI Laval!
Usability reviews in the open source world
It is a pleasure to hear that some open source projects are conducting usability reviews :
Wikipedia : Usability and Experience Study
OpenStreetMap: UX Review
any other ?
Usability reviews are of uttermost importance if you want to learn how your end users use your product. I initially thought that conducting usability reviews was complex, and involved lots of […]
Make sure your software is continuously specified
As you may have noticed in the Executable Specification and build integration post build system integration is an area where GreenPepper shines. Most teams having good automated build practices also use a continuous integration (CI) server. We provide more comfort to those teams by allowing them to look at their GreenPepper execution results directly from […]
Enfin un bouquin au sujet de scrum en français
J’ai reçu il y a environ une semaine ma copie du premier bouquin au sujet de scrum en français. Scrum : Le guide pratique de la méthode agile la plus populaire a été écrit par Claude Aubry. Claude nous offre un regard pratique et lucide au sujet de scrum et …