Savoir Agile

Our knowledge acquisition strategy for ACS Cloudphone is starting to pay off. After only 3 days of MusyMix on the market, we already gathered good information about ACS: No one has installed the ACS CloudPhone after installing MusyMix. Most probably, the relationship between the advanced transcoding feature and the ACS …

My colleague François Perron launched a very interesting discussion on our private wiki – “As a coach, what to do when executives and upper management force the project team to do over time in order to meet deadlines?”. As you can probably guess, this initiated very interesting discussions and an obvious reaction to such an […]

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“I used to write the code, own the domain names, run the mailing list(s), run the servers, evangelize, talk to the press and so on. I’ve successively and successfully given up those rights to very capable individuals. However this has led to a power […]

Some of you played to win a spot to assist to our private conference with Ken Schwaber. But only 5 persons won the chance to actually be there last 14th of July 2010. Now everyone can view the conference : the video is now on our homepage . In 30 …

I’m integrating audio & video transcoding and manipulating to the ACS platform. The goal is to easily enable Android developers to perform complex image, video and audio processing on the cloud as if they were on their phone. To demonstrate this, I’m building a simple music player that feeds on …

Everybody knows no one reads documentation. Hamcrest found an original way to warn users to use the org.hamcrest.BaseMatcher class instead of the org.hamcrest.Matcher interface. Look at the interface yourself. They added a dummy deprecated method called _dont_implement_Matcher___instead_extend_BaseMatcher_ in the interface. I am still unsure whether I will ever use this in my own projects. But […]

Have you ever struggle with coming up with useful assertion messages in your tests? Well, I have; until not so long ago.

I remember when I started using JUnit. It was summer 2000, and I became addicted to writing tests first. I was already writing aut…

Suite au concours Un déjeuner avec Ken Schwaber, nous sommes heureux d’annoncer les 5 personnes qui participeront à ce déjeuner. – Anthony Dahane – Christine Lambert – Bilal Nasar – Steffan Surdek – Alfonso Marin Nous tenons à remercier tous les gens qui ont prit le temps de nous écrire …

Pyxis is offering 5 passes to attend our private conference breakfast with Ken Schwaber. It will be held on July 14th from 7:30 to 9:30 am in downtown Montréal. You want to be part of it? Tell us why we should choose YOU by posting a comment. How will this experience enlighten …

Talia is delighted to have been chosen as the plugin of the month for JIRA. Dialoog, a subsidiary Pyxis Technologies, has just released Talia for JIRA, the first enterprise-class chat robot that assists project managers with time tracking and issue updates. The product is not just an Instant Messaging interface to your …