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Introduction In our quest to produce quality software and our relentless use of automated unit tests in our development activities, we’ve come to realize they possess other virtues as well. One of those being they stand as a documentation of the system being developed. I’ve taught this idea in several …

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 […]

A new release of Hibernate validator has been unleashed. It contains interesting features, such as the fact that your constraints will now be visible by the whole Java ecosystem. Finally !

Marc-Andre Thibodeau and Vincent Tence have set-up a sample Petstore project on github that shows how to take advantage of this new release of Hibernate […]

I came across this interesting set of linux/unix one-liners…   (thanks Phil).

Nice brain gymnastics, and it is definitely worth checking out if you want to add a few tricks to your power-user recipes

Pyxis Technologies is currently working with scrum.org (company founded by Ken Schwaber) to open new and unprecedented classes to software developers in Canada and in France. The first course – that will be available very soon – aims at guiding teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable …

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 …

IT world runs a very interesting article explaining why Open source is not a democracy, and never should. Some interesting quotes :

“No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But

we are not voting on design decisions.”

“Shuttleworth is in the right here. Ubuntu and a vast majority of free and open source […]

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…

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 […]