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I have been frustrated many times by some of Java’s checked exceptions. I’m sure you can recall some of your own experiences where you wished a CheckedException was a RuntimeException instead.

Let me share a useful exception idiom that I&#…

Another blog from Microsoft (Aaron Bjork) about Urban Turtle . Thank you!

À l’occasion du lancement du nouveau cours “Scrum pour développeurs” en partenariat avec l’organisation Scrum.org, VoxAgile a eu la bonne idée de réunir deux formateurs, Ernst Perpignand et Vincent Tencé avec Christian Lapointe. Ils échangent sur ce nouveau cours de formation et abordent, entre autres, les sujets suivants : Qui …

Code Anthem’s Law :

The less the median developer on a software project team is paid, the more the project will cost to complete.

In the last VoxAgile episode, Christian Lapointe, Ernst Perpignand and Vincent Tence are having a discussion concerning the latest Scrum.org developer training.

Is that the solution to all the problems we are facing in the software industry ? Is a full week training going to change anything to the current situation ? The answer is clearly […]

Je souhaite partager avec vous le discours que j’ai prononcé la semaine dernière à titre de président d’honneur lors du gala de remise des prix du Concours québécois en entrepreneuriat, région Laval. Bonsoir Mesdames et Messieurs, J’aimerais dans un premier temps demander à toutes les personnes présentes qui travaillent à …

I am proud to announce the availability of MFU (Multiple File Uploader) v0.1 . This is a small project that we developed with Florent Valdelievre.

If you are using the dojo toolkit and are looking for a clean, customizable file uploader, that works pretty much the same way as gmail file attachment mechanism (demo here), then […]

Pretty good post from A. Skorkin.

BOZO Consulting

BOZO is a place with well-intentioned people who really want to please their clients. The only downside to BOZO is it doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to achieve that goal. BOZO says yes to everything: “Yes, of course we will cut the estimate.” “Yes, […]

I had a blast meeting new people and sharing experiences writing software. I especially liked Barry Gervin’s keynote on successful product management and Todd Anglin’s talk on HTML5. As for me, I did and introductory talk on Scrum and Visual Studio 2010 briefly touching on some of the content of …

The need for a course for Scrum developers : If you’ve been following my series of recent blog posts entitled Agile Lessons Learned you might of seen some repetitive patterns emerge, mostly about the need for proper engineering practices.  In my mind, engineering practices compose the first pillar underneath the …