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My 5 favorite software quotes

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 [...]

Posted 30 December 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (29) ° Also tagged:

When do we reach the expert stage?

In a previous post, I discussed about the Dunning-Kruger effect. As a brief summary, it means: “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. When you are aware of this result, you just ask yourself whether it’s normal to be confident in a [...]

Posted 22 May 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Are you a competent developer?

Have you heard about the Dunning-Kruger effect? The definition of Wikipedia is:
The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average. [...]

Posted 29 April 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: ,

Project management: case study on software

I trained in project management few weeks ago. The speacker had a great culture in this domain and he gave us a lot of case studies: two of them were on software management. The first one was how to manage a ..BIP.. At this time, I don’t want to influence your opinion on the category [...]

Posted 12 April 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , ,

JUnit Max: continuous integration goes further

Hello,
Today, I have discovered that Kent Beck has a blog. For the people who don’t know him, the inventor of the Extreme Programming methodology and JUnit (with Erich Gamma). He’s currently working on a new project called JUnit Max:
The first part of the solution is to get smarter about running tests so the average wait [...]

Posted 11 April 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

The books: starter pack

I write this first post on the books that I recommend, especially to new developers and to students. For some of us, it’s hard to know where to begin…
This book introduces some of the GoF’s Design Patterns using a wonderful approach. When you look at the cover, you can’t imagine that it’s a technical [...]

Posted 10 April 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Introduce myself

Hello,
It’s time, I’ve decided to write my blog, to keep traces of my thought over the time.
In the real life, I’m a developer. At this time, I prefer to stay anonymous because I want to be sure readers understand that my company is not linked with my writing: it’s just some personal feelings.
The aim of [...]

Posted 04 April 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,