Coder-friendly

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 [...]

Sometimes, you hear a guy who talks about something that he doesn’t understand at all, but… he uses the right buzzwords and so, he is listened carefuly: Web2.0, OpenSource, Agile, Cloud Computing, SaaS… How many times have you met someone who says he’s agile but his methodologies didn’t change from the previous ones (and he [...]