Ruby Rails tutorial
O?Reilly has a very nice tutorial for Rails. The tutotial shows how easy it is to developp a CRUD application. It looks good, but I think I still prefer Seaside.
Architecture agile
Brad Appleton d?crivait r?cemment comment la conception de syst?mes informatique lui a ?t? enseign?e ? l?universit?. Il faisait notamment appara?tre la notion de ? negative space ?, inspir? par Christopher Alexander.Cette notion tiens en une phrase : ? il n?y a pas de code plus flexible que l?absence de code ?.Depuis 30 ans, toutes les […]
Collective programming?
Laurent just started a Dojo Development dedicated blog. His first post ends with the frustration that not every participant code at each session.
I say “frustrating” above, because in the realization some things that seemed “obvious” in vision turn out to be difficult in practice. One of these is the idea of having every participant in […]
English or francais?
I had some feedback from readers of this blog remarking that some posts are in French, others are in English.Actually, I started blogging about one year ago, only in English. This is not my native langage, and it happened that some time, it was difficult to me to express the ideas in English, and then […]
A380 is not a banking software system
A current discussion on the XP mailing list is about the A380 project success story, and what lessons could be learned from it.This is a quite common mistake to try to compare software development activity for business systems and the industry. The two domains are radically different for many reasons. Let me point two of […]
[grid::fatherhood]
I discovered Paul Graham only recently. I must admit I love what he writes: any of his essays, on computer or on life in general, is always a pure jewel.The last one seems to me to fit quite well with [grid::fatherhood].
If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I’d say […]
Dojo #1
Hier s?est tenue la deuxi?me ?dition du Dojo Developpement Xp-France.L?essentiel de la session fut consacr? ? la mise en ?uvre d?une id?e g?niale d?Emmanuel Gaillot : le collective programming.Emmanuel et Laurent se sont bin?m?s pour coder en Ruby les r?gles de gestion du score de Bowling. Ce th?me fut repris ? la suite de la […]
