InfoQ runs a very interesting video of Jim Coplien about Data-Context Interaction.
“Uncle bob completly misses the point by assuming that professionalism is about doing TDD”.
“Dynamic languages got popular for the wrong reasons
“people get religious about details that don’t matter, and very very few people are talking about the big picture”
“scrum is all about common sense, but common sense is really uncommon”
“teams are effective, and to be effective they have to be small. 3 is better than 5″
The less the median developer on a software project team is paid, the more the project will cost to complete.
In the last VoxAgile episode, Christian Lapointe, Ernst Perpignand and Vincent Tence are having a discussion concerning the latest Scrum.org developer training.
Is that the solution to all the problems we are facing in the software industry ? Is a full week training going to change anything to the current situation ? The answer is clearly a big NO, but what I find extremely important with this new trend is that people are slowly realizing that if you want to develop software, you’d rather invest in your developers !
So long live to Scrum.org developer course, and let’s hope to see more initiatives like that!
Here is my selection of websites that are focusing on Android-related news :
Which ones do you often use ?
With a few people from Pyxis Tech, we launched Slashoid.org last month. The goal was to provide a community-driven website that provides Android news that matter : interesting and unpolluted scoops that prevent you, as a reader, from subscribing to dozen of RSS feeds just to be notified of anything that is worth it in the Android community.
After a month of activity, things seem to go well. We average something like 60 unique visitors and about 150 page views per day. This is a good start, and will continue to rise as we get some visibility (From a SEO point of view, we are practically invisible). Any idea on how to improve this ?
On Scrum cross-functional teams pinpoints the lack of a real flow in Scrum and its consequences
In Scrum, there is no mechanism to show the bottlenecks of a process. You can only see that the realization of a task takes a long time or that the task is blocked. You have no idea why or where it is stuck unless you ask the team members. The burndown chart doesn’t help in that matter, when there is a bottleneck you can see some bumps on the graphs but the chart doesn’t capture any information on where is the delay is coming from. “
I am proud to announce the availability of MFU (Multiple File Uploader) v0.1 . This is a small project that we developed with Florent Valdelievre.
If you are using the dojo toolkit and are looking for a clean, customizable file uploader, that works pretty much the same way as gmail file attachment mechanism (demo here), then please check it out !
The most important features include :
Please do not hesitate to drop me an email if you have trouble using MFU.
And of course, the project is hosted on github, so contributing is a breeze 
Just fork to provide additional code or translations, and we’ll be thrilled to include your enhancements in the next release.
Pretty good post from A. Skorkin.
BOZO Consulting
BOZO is a place with well-intentioned people who really want to please their clients. The only downside to BOZO is it doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to achieve that goal. BOZO says yes to everything: “Yes, of course we will cut the estimate.” “Yes, of course, we will lower our bill rate.” The idea is to get the deal at all costs. To summarize, BOZO has a sales-driven culture that lacks the ability to leverage any sort of delivery capability it accidentally hires (thought from Skorks: that would have to be one of the most buzzword driven sentences ever, how can we “leverage” that).