remerciements

Aller, on lance un thread special remerciements! ;-)Je remercie ?galement les membres de cette listes (les petits et les grands) car ce sont bien eux qui m’ont permis de d?couvrir l’agilit?, et quelque part, d’en etre l? ou j’en suis aujourd’hui (c’est ? dire pas tr?s loin, mais c’est d?j? pas mal pour moi)Par ailleurs, […]

XP2005: first feedback for Laurent’s Dojo

For some professional bad reasons, I was not able to attend XP2005 as initially planned.That’s why I am looking for feedbacks from Sheffield and first one is quite encouraging: Laurent and Emmanuel workshop on their concept of Dojo attracted attention from Dave and Uncle Bob! That’s really good news for me to see that the […]

Offshore versus agile

It happens sometime that one of my customer ask me about offshore development. When such question comes, I ask “why do you want to offshore this?” and the answer is always the same: for the price. Not for quality, not for innovation, not to improve the company products: it is just to cut the cost.
Suppose […]

Banking software are definitely not like Airbus planes?

Thanks to James Robertson, I came across this column, ranting against OOP. Nothing very interesting in the argumentation. For instance, taken in his ranting fever, the author states:
If Airbus or Boeing built aircraft like the IT industry builds software, aircraft would constantly be dropping out of the sky.
Take a look to this post if you […]

wxSqueak: impressive!

Another squeak find: wxSqueak.
You should give a try to the demos: they are impressive! Squeak had already the best WebApp framework, now it has also a very nice rich GUI framework! What else should we look for?
Thank you very much to both of you Avi and Rob!!!
Update: wxSqueak at StS2005

A nice little Smalltalk tutorial

Just found this very nice little tutorial for Smalltalk and Squeak by Wilkes Joiner.
Read an enjoy

Resist for promotion, until you can accept it

Dave Hoover is currently doing a wonderful job of formalizing apprenticeship patterns for software programmers. He recently described two very interesting patterns: For love, not money, and Resist the promotion. In this last pattern, Dave states the following:
Craftsmen must not be fooled into believing that you can be a “technical manager”, since every day that […]

Scott Berkun’s blog

Following Werner Vogel’s advice, I just discovered the Scott Berkun’s blog. Indeed, this is a great essayist. Have a look to it.
Moreover, there is a forum where you can interact with Scott. Somebody asked him to compare Apple and Microsoft design strategy. Scott’s analysis of centralized versus distributed design strategies is very interesting.

OS/X for every body?

The web is currently waiting for the announce tomorrow of the Apple technology shift from IBM to Intel. This would be great news. At some stage, we could expect to have a generalization of OS/X to all Intel platforms (maybe 90% of the market). OS/X has several advantages over Microsoft equivalents:

Unix based (reliability)
Clean Object API […]

Seaside 2.5 available

A new release for Seaside: get it here.Time for you to have a small walk on the sea side

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