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• Microsoft employees love their iphone March 14, 2010
  Slashdot runs a story about Microsoft employees preferring to use the iPhone rather than 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 [...] […]
  sami dalouche
• Coding and Debugging in Bubbles March 12, 2010
  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 far. Of course, this is [...] […]
  ernst perpignand
• Pyxis, entreprise du mois de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Laval March 12, 2010
  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! […]
  anne-laure miquel
• An example of not applying the repair rule principle March 12, 2010
  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 [...] […]
  sami dalouche
• On real meritocracy March 12, 2010
  If you want to hear about a real example of pure meritocracy, you should listen to Tarus Balog on Linux Link Tech Show episode 343. This guy has truly understood how to lead an open source project, and a number of really interesting things such as Open Source Marketing are discussed. (VCs who want to [...] […]
  sami dalouche
• What Thoughtworkers think of git… March 12, 2010
  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 [...] […]
  sami dalouche
• DDD and NoSQL are a nice fit March 12, 2010
  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 [...] […]
  sami dalouche
• Welcome additions in Sonar 2.0 March 11, 2010
  Sonar 2.0 is just out and adds very interesting stuff. It focuses especially on architecture and OO metrics, which were the missing part of the metrics puzzle in previous releases. […]
  marc-andre thibodeau
• Mettre de la pression sur le système pour faire apparaître le gaspillage March 11, 2010
  Afin de faire apparaître les goulots d’étranglement dans le processus de réalisation d’une équipe fonctionnant en Kanban, j’ai proposé de réduire les limites du WIP1 Lors de la mise en place, l’équipe a fixé des limites confortables pour le WIP. Après deux semaines d’utilisation du tableau, l’équipe n’a pas identifié de goulot d’étranglement. Lorsque j’ai fa […]
  tremeur balbous
• GeoTools March 11, 2010
  GeoTools developers have released the 2.6.2  version. GeoTools contains an incredible amount of utilities related to GIS and I am totally impressed by the feature set. To give an example of its use, here is some sample code from gisgraphy-java-client ( a simple Java client I am writing for the open source GISgraphy project).  It calculates [...] […]
  sami dalouche