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20 December 2005

What the market wants

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I have been following a training session on the marketing of innovation. What a treat! Many times, the speaker told us: "if you should ...
05 December 2005

Test-driven development : a practical guide - 2 years later

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Oh well, this book ( Test-driven development : a practical guide by Dave Astels) is not so new. Yet, I believe that not so many developers ...
29 November 2005

Bouncing ideas

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I had the great opportunity to participate in creativity and brainstorming trainings. When I first learned about brainstorming, we were taug...
19 November 2005

Testing: disciplin, attitude and intuition (3/3)

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Intuition I had one other bug that I found really inspiring 2 days agos ("learn from your errors", they say,...). I had to create ...

Testing: disciplin, attitude and intuition (2/3)

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Attitude I ran across a test today that I found interesting. The tested class was one of our association containers (see previous blog entri...

Testing: disciplin, attitude and intuition (1/3)

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This is the first of 3 entries that make testing look like a martial art,... Disciplin Test-driven development is a really wonderful idea. ...
15 November 2005

It's cool to have a tool

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It's the positive "hammer" effect ("when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail"). We were facing the follo...
10 November 2005

I am definetly a geek,...

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Although I may not admit it in all circumstances, I seem to be quite a geek. I passed the nerd test today and got a "Migthy Nerd"...
04 November 2005

Let computers be dumb so that you can be smart and smart, so that you won't be dumb

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I recently found that this could be a kind of unofficial motto for our software product. But it might as well be the same for many other sof...
26 October 2005

I had to use Google's software somehow,...

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And here I am again finding that old blog that I created 2 years ago,... Blogger has evolved a lot so I decided to give it a start again wit...
19 October 2005

Object modeling to code: associations as first-class citizens

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I had this feeling for a long, long, long time. I always found that object modeling in UML helped giving birth to what Eric Evans calls th...
04 October 2005

Recruitement best practises

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There's so much "soft" in software. I have again the opportunity to recruit somebody for our development team and I thin...
29 September 2005

Protect your GUI thread

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He (Heinz) was right about it. We were in serious trouble not tohave restricted access to our gui components from other threads than the Swi...
23 September 2005

Training that counts

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We had today a java training with Dr. Heinz Kabutz. There would be many thing to say about this, but let's just summarize a few.First...
22 September 2005

At last concrete objectives!

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Today, I had the opportunity to do it the way I thought it should be done,... Dealing with software is something, dealing with people crea...
21 July 2003

eXtremeProgramming applied

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I had the occasion last friday to practise an eXtremeProgramming session, and found it really interesting. We knew what the problem was. ...
15 July 2003

MDA approach and Software complexity

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"There is no software bullet" This famous article from F.Brooks (1986) is always relevant today. We may think that there will b...
03 July 2003

Saving of my blogs on freeroller,...

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Thursday July 03, 2003 Finishing the metrics component, considerations on checked exceptions My objective today is to finish this com...
29 April 2003

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Creation of my own blog today. I just gave in to the fashion,... but this may prove useful!