I love wacky things (not sure if I love wacky people, but that’s another problem). I love programming. Oh, and I love books, too. Put the three together and you get: “I love wacky books about programming”.
It’s true! I love them! So I loved Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. And so will you. Or maybe not.
I just returned from AgileOpen France, an Open Space Technology conference organized by Bernard Notarianni, Raphaël Pierquin and Emmanuel Gaillot, in the footsteps of AgileOpen Europe.
All in all, it has been a good conference.
The AgileOpen France conference is opening this Wednesday for 3 days, and I am going with my colleagues Etienne and Yannick.
On projects that I see, most are using a Continuous Integration tool. Many, however, still do not use those tools to their fullest. Here is what I typically set up on projects that I have control on.
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The Maven Surefire page explains that -DskipTests and -Dmaven.test.skip=true can both be used to avoid running tests. If you use an old-ish version of Surefire (pre-2.4) or even if you use the latest version (2.4.2 as of February 21th, 2008), there are a couple of things you need to know.
I was there! Last Tuesday, I witnessed the first meeting of the first Paris Java User Group. At long last, more than 10 years after the creation of the first JUGs, after the creation of dozens of JUGs at our European neighbours, finally a French-speaking Java User Group has been created.
CITCON, the conference on Continuous Integration & Testing, is coming to Denver, April 4 & 5. Seats are limited (but free!) and registration has been going briskly (probably the fastest of all CITCON events). Register now!
I have finally been able to make some progress towards translating Hudson in French. The latest version (1.181) will now display automatically in French if your web browser is appropriately configured.
During the Scrum trainings I give at Valtech Training, I often get asked how the bugs should be estimated. Sometimes, the question is about various architecture tasks or GUI updates.
Things are starting to take shape for Agile 2008. Submissions are starting to come in. We are at 10 for the Breaking Acts stage, which is pretty good at this point.
Considering that the deadline is February 25th, now is a good time to submit your own proposal. If you feel you might have new, or counter-intuitive ideas to share, consider submitting to the Breaking Acts stage. Many other categories also await your topics.
While you’re at it, read Rachel Davies telling the story of the Agile 2008 conference. Also, check out the video of Grigori that explains how to use the submission system.
Wow, what a year.
01Net, a French magazine, has just released a video they made on the BarCamp last Saturday (in French). You can see me a couple of time, though not hear me.
With my colleagues Jean-Christophe, Yannick, Julien, and Etienne, we attended the Paris on Rails conference yesterday, the only conference related to Ruby and Rails in France.
I have long wanted to attend a BarCamp but it’s not easy to get yourself to attend a conference on a Saturday after a whole week of work. I was also turned off by an impression that the crowd was interested in creating communities on the web, or micro-credit. Worthwhile themes, to be sure, but not currently part of my interests.
This time, what made the difference was that it was organized by Sun France. Also, it was a chance to catch up with Jean-Laurent.
On a project I’m involved in, we are programming both in Java and Python. The Java part has been written TDD-style, with Hudson as the CI tool from the beginning. I’ve tried to promote unit testing and CI for the Python part as well, but little progress has been made.
So I am pleased to see a very positive experience report on integrating Hudson with Python. Not only was the code packaged and unit tested, but reports were also shown for both quality metrics and tests. Very encouraging!
