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YouTube - Why does Agile Software Development pay?

2011-04-08T16:18:00.000+02:00

Excellent short video showing visually how an Iterative and Incremental Development model can help to prevent software depreciation by maximizing the generated business value over time and keeping it high - or even higher - by welcoming changes. At the end, this video illustrates the benefits of Agile over a traditional approach.

Hibernate 3.5.0-Final is out

2010-04-01T22:56:00.003+02:00

Hibernate 3.5.0-Final has been released yesterday (no no, this is not an April Fool) and this is great news. Congratulations to the Hibernate team. Noticeable changes include:

Hibernate Entity Manager, Annotations and Envers are now part of Hibernate Core (so they now have the same release cycles and version numbers, no more compatibility matrix hell).
Full support of JSR-317 (JPA 2.0). Yeah baby!
Support of a new second level cache provider (Infinispan which is actually a data grid, pretty interesting).
Support for JDBC 4.
And more, see the official announcement.

Oh, as you may have noticed, Hibernate has dropped the "GA" (General Availability) term in favor of the "Final" qualifier. Refer to the JBoss conventions for background on this (change always introduces some confusion but this one is a good one).

And for the impatient Maven users, you can get the new artifacts from the JBoss Maven repository.

Funny Venn Diagrams

2009-11-07T23:26:00.003+01:00

The Huffington Post has a collection of the funniest Venn Diagrams available around the Internet. Nice samples of Mr. John Venn's work applied.

Scrum methodology video

2009-07-26T15:17:00.009+02:00

In this less than 6 minutes video, Bruno Sbille and his team demonstrate how they applied Scrum on a real-world project. No advertising, no lobbying, just pure experience sharing in a very didactic way. Warmly recommended to everyone interested by Scrum agile software development methodology.

Thank you Bruno for this work and for sharing it:

Scrum, an Agile method... in the real world

Ubuntu and maven2

2008-04-20T15:33:00.012+02:00

I don't know how I missed this but I just discovered that maven2 is available in the current unstable release (Hardy Heron).

So, happy Hardy Heron users, if you want to use maven2, installation can be pretty straightforward:

$ sudo apt-get install maven2

Et voilà! After a few seconds and the download of a bunch of new dependencies and files, maven should be installed and working correctly. This can be verified using the following command:

$ mvn --version

Which should should print something similar (at the time I'm writing this) to:

Maven version: 2.0.8
Java version: 1.6.0_06
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.24-12-generic" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"

It's not that it's complicated to install maven manually and I was happy with my current setup and will keep it for various reasons (mostly because I'm using 2.1-SNAPSHOT) but a well integrated package is always nice and helps: no ENV variable to set up, no PATH to modify...

Actually, this is precisely one of the reason I really like Ubuntu : Apache, Java, Ruby, Python, Scala, Groovy, PHP, Maven, Ant, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, Glassfish, Subversion,... you need something? just "sudo apt-get install" it.

Ubuntu is definitively a great development environment!

Note: Gutsy Gibbon users can try the backports available in Matti Lindell's Personal Package Archive as mentioned in this comment or wait for the release of Ubuntu 8.04 which shouldn't be a big issue as it will occur in a few days now.

XP Day France 2008

2008-04-10T12:43:00.005+02:00

Petit coup de pub pour la conférence XP Day France 2008 qui se tiendra à Paris les 5 et 6 mai (nouvelles dates!) prochains et dont vous trouverez une présentation ci-dessous :

XP Day France 2008
Paris, les 5 et 6 mai 2008

La conférence agile sur les méthodes agiles !
http://www.xpday.fr/

Vous êtes en quête d'idées neuves pour rendre plus efficaces vos projets de développement logiciels... Vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur les méthodes agiles, leurs bénéfices, leurs limites... Vous avez mis en place des pratiques agiles au sein de vos projets et vous souhaitez confronter vos retours d'expérience à ceux d'autres praticiens...

La conférence XP Day s'adresse à tous les intervenants des projets logiciels: chefs de projet, clients, décideurs, développeurs... Loin des conférences "académiques" ou des événements commerciaux, le succès du format XP Day, déjà présenté au Royaume-Uni, Benelux, Allemagne, Italie, etc. s'explique par son orientation pragmatique. XP Day vous apporte des réponses concrètes, des idées que vous pouvez immédiatement mettre en pratique, des sessions interactives, démonstrations et débats sur les sujets suivants et bien d'autres encore:
débuter avec Extreme Programming
débuter avec l'intégration continue
le TDD avec des frameworks: Spring, etc.
contractualiser les projets agiles
mieux communiquer avec les clients
outils et langages favorables à l'agilité: Erlang, Javascript...
comment aborder l'analyse en XP
retours d'expérience sur Scrum, XP, etc...
XP Day est organisé avec le concours de l'Association Extreme Programming France (loi 1901). La conférence est à but non lucratif, votre participation aux frais permet de financer d'autres événements du même type. Elle est fixée pour 2008 à 120€, pour les adhérents de l'association au 31/12/2007 le tarif appliqué est de 90€.
L'inscription au dîner est fixée à 20€ supplémentaires.

Pour vous inscrire ou consulter le programme : http://www.xpday.fr/

Les événements francophones autour de l'agile n'étant pas si nombreux, je ne peux que vous encourager à y assister si vous en avez l'opportunité. Quant à moi, j'espère bien être speaker en 2009 :)

Agile Estimation with Mike Cohn

2008-04-09T16:11:00.007+02:00

Check this great presentation from Mike Cohn, the author of the book Agile Estimating and Planning, during a bayXP meeting at Google:

Bay XP Meeting Part 1: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn

Bay XP Meeting Part 2: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn

This presentations is more than one year old but I'm posting it for reference. It's a must see!

Best code quality metric ever :)

2008-02-12T23:49:00.005+01:00

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2007-12-25T20:59:00.000+01:00

welcome to hulu
Hulu is an online video on demand service that is also expected to offer video sharing. The service is a joint venture of NBC Universal.
OPENhulu - Watch TV Shows for FREE! This is the new TV-Links! Watch Hulu Videos without an invite!
Watch the closed beta Hulu content for free and without registration.

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2007-12-24T10:19:00.001+01:00

Planning Poker timer
Aslak Hellesøy's Planning Poker Timer with configurable colour transitions.

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2007-12-24T10:13:00.001+01:00

Forum Systems, Inc. - Forum XRay
Forum XRay Web Services Diagnostics is a quality assurance solution that tests Web services within service-oriented applications against business and technical requirements of security, accuracy and performance.

Links for 2007-12-11 [del.icio.us]

2007-12-12T15:02:00.000+01:00

Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland: Origins of Scrum
Jeff Sutherland on the origins of Scrum.
Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland: Is it Scrum or Lean?
Jeff Sutherland on Lean and Scrum origins again.

Links for 2007-12-10 [del.icio.us]

2007-12-12T11:52:00.001+01:00

Agile Contracts (Agile Advice)
One of the Certified Scrum Trainers, Chris Sterling from SolutionsIQ, recently posted a good set of links on Agile Contracts. Hopefully these links will help you understand how to "sell", set up and execute on agile contracts.
InfoQ: Lessons from building Oracle Mix on JRuby on Rails
Oracle Labs recently released Oracle Mix, a JRuby on Rails based social networking application. Rich Manalang now posted his experiences working on the project.
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.

Links for 2007-12-03 [del.icio.us]

2007-12-10T17:58:00.001+01:00

Bot Bouncer
BotBouncer.com is a CAPTCHA service for OpenIDs. We provide an API for finding out if a user has filled out our CAPTCHA. We also provide a simple mechanism for OpenID enabled sites to send their users over here to fill out our CAPTCHA.
Frankenstein: About
Frankenstein is a Functional Testing tool for Swing applications. Frankenstein's focus is on readable, simple, fast functional tests that can be shared and run by everyone on a team.

Links for 2007-11-24 [del.icio.us]

2007-11-25T22:36:00.001+01:00

md5 reverse lookup
A blog entry by a security expert about using Google to find the input leading to a given MD5 hash.
Goog_Your_Hash - Utility Mill - Utility
Find out if Google knows your password
Light Blue Touchpaper » Google as a password cracker
A database of MD5 hashes and their corresponding text strings.

Links for 2007-11-22 [del.icio.us]

2007-11-25T22:32:00.001+01:00

Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is used with different types of languages including common scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby
The "Broken Iron Triangle" Software Development Anti-pattern
Scott Ambler article ont the iron - scope, schedule, resources - triangle

Links for 2007-11-18 [del.icio.us]

2007-11-25T22:27:00.001+01:00

subtitleeditor
A GTK+ subtitle editor for GNU/Linux. Supports SRT and SSA/ASS.
Gnome Subtitles | Video subtitling for the GNOME desktop
Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation and synchronization.
Gaupol Subtitle Editor
Gaupol is an editor for text-based subtitle files. It supports multiple subtitle file formats and provides means of correcting texts and timing subtitles to match video.

Links for 2007-11-12 [del.icio.us]

2007-11-13T19:46:00.001+01:00

CardMeeting
CardMeeting is a free-form sandbox for simultaneous long-distance collaboration. Use CardMeeting and a conference call to work together... even when you can't be together.

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2007-11-13T19:45:00.001+01:00

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Introducing Windows CardSpace
This article introduces the set of new Windows capabilities called Windows CardSpace, which provides a standards-based solution for working with and managing diverse digital identities.

Links for 2007-11-07 [del.icio.us]

2007-11-08T15:41:00.000+01:00

LaCie - 2big Network (2-disk RAID) - Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbits
The 2big Network can act as a file-sharing server, a backup server or an FTP server.

No Sound Issue in Firefox Flash [Fixed]

2007-11-07T23:31:00.004+01:00

I love Ubuntu but one thing was really pissing me off on my desktop computer: the very annoying No sound in Firefox Flash issue which I'm facing since I upgraded from Feitsy to Gutsy.

But tonight, because I felt frustrated again because of this issue, I googled it one more time, hoping to find something new. A few minutes later, I found a link to a How To Fix The No Sound Issue in Firefox Flash post in the ubuntu forums and decided of course to give it a try.

The post suggests to update the libflashsupport library with a patched version from Paul Betts who is a software engineer at... Microsoft working on hotfixes and updates for Windows :) Anyway, I just installed Paul's version and guess what: sound is now working again in Firefox Flash! Thank you both guys, this is so sweet!

Links for 2007-11-06 [del.icio.us]

2007-11-07T18:56:00.000+01:00

TwitterFox - naan studio - Trac
This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.
How to win in the Twitter vs. Jaiku battle | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Newbie guide on putting Twitter feed into Jaiku
Goodbye Twitter. Hello Jaiku. - Vox
Leo Laporte, the former most popular Twitter contributor, explains why he left Twitter for a competing service, Jaiku.
Joshua : Introduction to Information Cards : MIX Online
Another open standard for identity on the web.
Welcome to Bandit - Bandit-project.org
The Bandit project creates a community that organizes and standardizes identity-related technologies in an open way, promoting both interoperability and collaboration.
Pownce
Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You'll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory
A directory of web 2.0 applications and services.
Top Five Articles for Presenters
Top five list of best articles for presenters.
10 Ways To Get More Done In Less Time | Performancing.com
This article proves 10 time-tested methods to get more work done than before AND free up the time we tend to 'borrow' from outside our work schedule.

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2007-11-06T18:57:00.000+01:00

Concordion
Concordion is an open source framework for Java that lets you turn a plain English description of a requirement into an automated test.

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2007-11-04T14:42:00.001+01:00

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Twitter: What are you doing?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
python-twitter - Google Code
This library provides a pure python interface for the Twitter API.
Jaiku | Jaiku - Frequently Asked Questions
Jaiku is a way to connect with friends by sharing short messages called Jaikus. You can create your own stream of Jaikus and follow your friends.
pjaiku
A simple python client for Jaiku.com
philwilson.org: Post to Twitter from Ubuntu Deskbar
New Jaiku App For Linux: Pjaiku (Floozle)
A 30-second guide to install Pjaiku on Ubuntu
OVal - the object validation framework for Java™ 5 or later
OVal is a pragmatic and extensible general purpose validation framework for any kind of Java objects (not only JavaBeans)
How to turn your blog in to an OpenID

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2007-11-02T13:56:00.001+01:00

WAG_RFC_001 - web-alignment-group - Google Code
The primary goals of this memorandum is to define the Heuristic Mapping technology in terms of: Heuristic Action Matching, Heuristic Result Matching, Explicit Mappings.
VentureCake » Blog Archive » VirtualBox 1.5: the good, the bad, and the ugly
The new VirtualBox brings seamless virtualization to Linux. This puts Linux on par with the Mac - users can run their native desktop but still launch the odd Windows-only program when they need to.
Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence: Home
The Pentaho BI Project provides enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities that help organizations operate more efficiently and effectively.
Talend - provider of open source data integration software
A very easy to install open source data integration / ETL solution seeing rapid adoption that is also easy to use.
JasperSoft - Open Source Business Intelligence
JasperSoft has one of the best open source reporting solutions on top of their open source BI stack
Ignite Realtime: Spark IM Client
Spark is a open source, cross platform IM solution with very strong security to help enterprise get over the "security" questions on the use of IM in the enterprise.