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Coding Dojo on Legacy Code
At CITCON Amsterdam last WE, Willem van den Ende and I facilitate a Coding Dojo session on both Mockito and Legacy Code. Willem and I thought that we had missed some of our goals (especially demonstrating Mockito), but still many people at … Continue reading
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Is Scrum Evil?
This was a fascinating discussion facilitated by Jeffrey at CITCON Amsterdam. Much talking with him followed, so I think I finally understand why he introduced this topic, and why so many people seemed to dislike Scrum. This was a typical discussion … Continue reading
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Back from CITCON Europe Amsterdam 2008
I came back this morning from the conference, my third time after Brussels in 07 and London in 06. It was great as usual. If you haven’t been to an Open Space conference, know that you are seriously missing out on … Continue reading
Posted in citcon, hudson
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Upcoming Talk: Introduction To Scrum
I will be at Agile Tour Grenoble Thursday next week. My talk will be an Introduction to Scrum. Come if you are interested in getting the basics about Scrum. In the meantime, Agile Tour Besançon is just starting today! Then, we’ll … Continue reading
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Next Talk: TDD Training
I am giving a 3-day TDD training session at Valtech Training premises, from Monday, October 6th. I’ll introduce a Coding Dojo, like we did in the TDD training last week.
Valtech Days: presentations in English
I have spent quite some time translating the titles of the presentations at Valtech Days for Jeff McKenna. I thought it would be a good idea to give you the information too! The conference aims at gathering 300 participants around … Continue reading
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jQuery to be integrated in ASP.NET
My collegue Cédric Rup tells me that jQuery, an open-source Javascript library, is to be included in a future version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio. A surprising move, as jQuery was still a minor player only a few months ago … Continue reading
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Improvised Coding Dojo
In the past three days, I have taught Test-Driven Development to a group of Java developers in Brittany. I thought it was a good idea to arrange an inpromptu Coding Dojo. That contained a moderate risk, as all dojos I … Continue reading
Posted in tdd, valtech
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My contributions to Hudson got approved for GlassFish Award Program
My Fit plugin for Hudson and the translation into French got approved for the GAP program. This means I am going to receive money from Sun! I am going to be rich, rich, rich! Err… not quite. Once the 30% … Continue reading
Drinks with Google Developer Day’s Speakers
It was fun going going this evening to La Cantine to meet some of the speakers for Google Developer Day Paris. I only heard about the conference last week, much too late to register (they are apparently expecting 600 people?!). … Continue reading
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You know you’re a sticky notes geek when…
Your wife leaves a trail of sticky notes before when she leaves town for a few days. You know, just so that you wouldn’t forget a couple of shores.
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I am a jealous man
I’d like to have many visitors. But compared to some blogs I follow, I still have work to do. Here are some information, according to Google Analytics. Compared to Claude Aubry, who writes in French about Scrum, I now reach … Continue reading
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realise till you have tried to make it precise
I am currently reviewing the first draft of Gojko Adzic‘s book Agile Acceptance Testing (I am still at the beginning, but I like it so far). He has a citation from Bertrand Arthur Russell’s Philosophy of Logical Atomism that is … Continue reading
DSLs: first, make them easy to read
Yesterday, I went to a presentation of Groovy at Paris JUG by Guillaume Laforge. One of his points was that Groovy is well-suited for designing DSLs – Domain Specific Languages. I think he said something along the lines of “with … Continue reading
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GWT, Flex, JavaFX, Silverlight or JQuery? The jury is still out
Like everyone else, we are interested in new frameworks to design richer web interfaces, usually known as RIA – Rich Internet Applications. Most people will agree that there are three big contenders, but they all have limitations: GWT, though my … Continue reading
Posted in gwt, java, valtech
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