Monthly Archives: October 2007

How to use hexagonal cards

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I first got introduced to using hexagonal cards for facilitation at AgileOpen. I thought they were pretty neat, and I acquired two packs of them for use at the Valtech Days. Here are some notes on how to use them.

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Valtech Days: Hudson Demo

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My quest for spreading the word about Hudson continues.

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Valtech Days: XWiki as an application development platform

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Vincent Massol has been kind enough to step up at the last minute as a presenter at the Valtech Days. His talk was about XWiki, a tool he is working on with his team at XWiki.com (he also hold a … Continue reading →

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Valtech Days 2007: notes, blogs & pictures

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My pictures are stored on flickr and I have also put my notes on the conference wiki: Intégration Continue, Outillage Agile, Recruter un bon profil Agile. All notes from the Open Space sessions, links to blogs and pictures are available … Continue reading →

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Valtech Days: an insider look

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Wow. I started writing this post on my way back from the Valtech Days conference, which I have contributed to organize, and all I can say is “wow”.

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Concordion, an alternative to FIT

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Concordion, a tool that was presented at CITCON Brussels a week ago, is finally out. The approach is interesting and can be compared to FIT or FitNesse. Where FIT and FitNesse let analysts/testers give examples in the specifications documents as … Continue reading →

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Conference Paris on Rails

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The second edition of Paris on Rails will take place on December, 10th. I’ve been wanting to learn Ruby for some time, but it’s only since I was offered the book at XP Days that I seriously started investing time … Continue reading →

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CITCON Brussels 2007: Hudson

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

After doing it at AgileOpen, I again had the chance to demonstrate Hudson. The attendants had all proved their CI credentials, to say the least, as they included developers on AnthillPro, Build-o-matic, and CruiseControl, of course (how many CC developers … Continue reading →

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CITCON Brussels 2007: Jester & Jumble

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I was very excited when Squirrel suggested a topic about mutation testing. I had looked at Jester & Jumble before, but gave up after a couple of hours, as they are not very easy to setup, and mostly not maintained. … Continue reading →

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Back from CITCON Brussels 2007

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I came back from Brussels this Sunday evening, after some visiting of the city. The conference has been a blast, especially networking with other participants. It has been great seeing again people that were there last year in London… and … Continue reading →

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I’ve been interviewed!

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The folks at developpez.com (the de facto leading French website for developers) have interviewed me about the Open Space Technology conference that we are having at the Valtech Days on Wednesday.

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Visual SourceSafe, a tool worth paying for?

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Just kidding, of course. Or am I? Check out this article sent to me by a colleague. It is full of little gems that I cannot resist to share. What about this line: “Even some who are otherwise fans of … Continue reading →

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Oracle offers to buy BEA

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Yep, it appears that Oracle has made an hostile bid for BEA, the last major independent pure player in application servers. It’s interesting because Oracle has had its own (mostly ignored) Oracle Application Server (OAS). I guess they were only … Continue reading →

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Signs from our internal OpenSpace Technology event

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

We did a rehearsal of our coming OpenSpace even at Valtech Days. The signs were “beta” versions of what we’ll get in two weeks. As a side note, we have also started displaying (and renewing) pictures of Valtech events on … Continue reading →

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CITCON Brussels Registrations are going nicely

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

We now have more than 80 registrants for CITCON Brussels, more than 2 weeks before the 19th. This year, I have volunteered to help organize registrations, so I get to see every single registration request. It’s interesting: sometimes, you don’t … Continue reading →

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