More than 500 videos on SoftDevTube.com

Published January 20th, 2009 Under News, Software Development, Videos | Leave a Comment

SoftDevTube.com is a repository of videos, interviews and tutorials focused on all software development activities: Coding (Java, .NET, ruby, python, C/C++, C#)  Agile Methodologies (eXtreme Programming, Scrum, TDD), Software Testing, Software Configuration Management, Database Management, Rich Interface Application (Ajax, Flex, Silverlight, JavaFx), Software Project Planning and Management, Software Architecture, etc.

Some of the recent interesting additions:

Distributed SCRUM as a Supplier – one year after

Taming the Beast: How to test an AJAX Application

Your Car Passed Inspection, But What About Your Software?

Will Borland Survive Yet Another Crisis?

Published January 9th, 2009 Under News, Software Development | 2 Comments

Borland discreetly announces this week the resignation of both Tod Nielsen, CEO since 2005, going to VMware as COO, and Peter Morowski, SVP of research and development, leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Borland will also reduce its workforce by approximately 130 employees, or approximately 15 percent of its regular full-time staff. For the fourth quarter of 2008, Borland is expecting to report total revenue in the range of $38.5 million to $40 million, down at least 10% from previous quarter. Considering that operating costs of revenues for the third quarter were around $45 million and that a lot of them are fixed costs, this will be another quarter with an important operating loss for Borland. The current CFO will act as CEO. Read more

More than 1000 tools registered at SoftDevTools.com

Published November 4th, 2008 Under Links, News, Software Development | Leave a Comment

SoftDevTools.com is a unique directory of software development tool where you can be informed on both commercial and open source solutions for your software development needs. It covers all software development activities: programming (java, .net, php, ruby, etc), testing, configuration management, databases, project management, etc. Tools can be classified using multiple criteria: licensing, running platforms and functionalities, etc. With 10’000 monthly visitors, SoftDevTools.com is proud to have registered its 1000 tool and looking forward to reaching the 2000 milestone.

If you are the editor of a commercial software development tool or contributing to an open source project, go to http://www.softdevtools.com/ to register your tool.

How Yahoo! International is Becoming Agile

Published October 16th, 2008 Under News, Personnal, Software Development | 1 Comment

I had the chance to assist to the Geneva stage of the Agile Tour, an itinerary French-speaking agile conference. Alexandre Boutin made a very interesting presentation about the transition to agile by Yahoo International (the non-US operations of Yahoo). Read more

More than 500 Links in SoftDevLinks.com

Published September 9th, 2008 Under Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | Leave a Comment

SoftDevLinks.com is a new general directory for software developers, testers and managers. Launched in June, it has achieved in September more than 500 links. If you have a blog, a web site, distribute a tool or work a consulting company related to software development, do not hesitate to add (for free) your links in this directory.

http://www.softdevlinks.com/

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