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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Telelogic to be acquired by IBM
I’ve just learned that Telelogic, one of my former employers, is to be acquired by IBM. From 1998 till early 2000, I used to work for Verilog, a French software company (I was based in the Dallas office) that was … Continue reading
A new technical blog at Valtech France
Here at Valtech France, we have had an internal technical newsletter for a couple of years. The articles are now available publicly online, just for you. Posts are in generally in French and address subjects such as Hudson, JSF, AgileOpen … Continue reading
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More annoying issues with WebServices
It seems that everyday, I find another reason to bash WebServices. A few weeks ago, we were trying desperately to generate proper Java stubs out of an WDSL descriptor that was using return data described in XSD files. We eventually … Continue reading
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AgileOpen – Measuring Agile
To my question “how can we demonstrate the validity of Agile using figures” the disappointing conclusion was that it was not actually possible (thank you Jamie and your “when you know, you know” ;-) ). For more on this, I’d … Continue reading
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XP Day Paris 2007: presentations now available online
Some of the presentations we saw at XP Day Paris 2007 are now available online (in French). Some of those that I had commented on before include: Explaining Agile to CIOs, by Pierre Pezziardi Pair Programming, by Jacques Couvreur and … Continue reading
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AgileOpen – Continuous Integration with Hudson
After a session on Agile Tooling, I suggested a demo of Hudson. I thought that went rather well. For me, Hudson is definitely the best CI tool today. It is still a bit young but it is so easy to … Continue reading
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AgileOpen – Agile Conference in French; Valtech Days
There were 4 French people at AgileOpen, so inevitably the subject of holding the equivalent of AgileOpen in France came up. It appeared that the people at Octo are using OpenSpace internally. They are also starting to apply it with … Continue reading
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AgileOpen – Games for Agile teams
In the evening, there was a session called ‘games’. That was interesting (and fun). A number of games were named.
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AgileOpen – Agile Retrospectives
I have to thank Diana Larsen for bringing the subject of Retrospectives up. I am very interested in them, but have little experience outside the usual Scrum retrospectives so I was very happy that someone of the caliber of Diana … Continue reading
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AgileOpen – Back from AO Europe 2007
Just came back from Hilversum, Netherlands, where AgileOpen Europe 2007 took place. See all the pictures I took on Flickr. Many other photos here.
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Maven: The plugin ‘standard maven plugin’ does not exist or no valid version could be found
A week ago, Maven started shouting “The plugin ‘org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin’ does not exist or no valid version could be found”. What the…?! how can “maven-war-plugin” not exist?? Besides, it is in my repository! As it turns out, it is a reasonably … Continue reading
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