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Iterative development approaches have good days : it changes the way you manage projects and most (all?) of agile “frameworks” are iterative ones. With the waterfall model, you set the features to develop and then, you estimate the time required to implement them. With iterative approaches, the paradigm is the opposite; you set the duration [...]

Some quotes are so good that they can learn you more things than complete books. For my last post of this year 2009, I’ve chosen to compile 5 of my favorites quotes.
Bjarne Stroustrup
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I [...]

Agile becomes popular. The pillar of Agile approaches is the Agile Manifesto which focuses on 4 values:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

These values are important to remember : before trying to learn Scrum or XP, just read them sometimes.
Do you [...]

Nowadays, social networks are maybe overused but I’m not a fan of them. They have completely redefined the word “Friends”: “acquaintance” is the right one for most of the cases.
At the beginning, I wasn’t convinced by the success of this kind of websites. Why do people want to share their personal life with 200 of [...]

You probably use inner classes which are (if I refer to Wikipedia):
In object-oriented programming, an inner class (aka nested class) is a class declared entirely within the body of another class or interface. It is distinguished from a subclass.
In Java, we can illustrate this concept with this sample:

public final class Clazz {
private final [...]