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Selecting one " Programming language of the year ", yes but which one? At school First, let's have a look at my abysmal lack o...

Dear Joel,... Here's a letter I just received from Joel Spolsky's company, FogCreek Software . One year and a half later, they'v...

Reading tons and tons of internet stuff, I often find some posts or some documents I find interesting or funny: some net pearls. As usual I ...

How do you know you got it all in your toolbox? Short answer: you never have it all. Long answer: you may add more, a lot more,... I was rea...

I was the great show opener with my Spiderman costume When I was 10 years old, my class was organizing a small theater play, b...

Back after a looonnng time I haven't kept the sacred "blog at least once a month" pace since last December because of my move ...

We all know the value of testing, and especially the importance of unit testing. However, it is sometimes quite a challenge to properly test...

We are conducing an interesting exploration project these days. The product I am working on uses UML models as a primary input. Those models...

We had this wonderful session last week about "writing on the walls". This tutorial was held by Laurent Bossavit (read here for ...

What makes interesting software? What makes hard software? What makes fun software? Customer affinity It all started with Martin Fowler post...

After 3 weeks of vacations (a wonderful place in Greece), I felt I needed some kind of warm-up,... So I undertook the idea to answer the we...

Let's say you have some bad legacy code (I have yet to see a codebase without any,...). When, how should you refactor/reengineer it? In ...

Writing unit tests looks like an art sometimes. You want to: test your class functionalities test it properly in isolation convey the specif...

Today's Dojo was interesting, at least interesting enough to keep a trace of it. The subject I wrote a small Dojo subject a week ago tha...

When can you say "too much is too much"? Let's say you have an object: Customer. Wow, how original! Anyway, please bear with m...

Sometimes, learning new things is scary. You've just learned something you find very important, acquired a new skill and you ask yoursel...