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NoSQL : mongo and couchdb

or why i like NoSQL databases

Since spring 2009, NoSQL movement goes bigger and bigger. I began to use them (specially mongodb and CouchDB) in febuary for my personal project and i begin to like it. I found it's great but maybe not for the reasons you expect.

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web design,screen pattern

This morning, I just found on my twitter a very good article from smashing mag. It's about typical screen design.

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Pomodoro technique

As an agile fan, i sometimes need a lighter method than scrum. For exemple when i m working on a small one man project. I know there is Personal scrum, but i feel it brings too much constraint and i m looking for something with very short iteration. So, i googled for a while and found Promodoro Technique

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dotclear

i just re-build my own blog, i learnt from my previous mistakes..

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Ooops !!

After a bad move, I deleted most of my website ... evrythings should be back soon ..

maven2 and spring3

get startted tutorial

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How to be agile when the management is not

As project manager and tech guy, i know the project i m working on these days wont be successful without an agile approch.

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who s talking about xhtml anymore

Since a few, i found that many website talks about the new html 5 and css3 standart. Althrow specifications are still not finished it's already looks the previous xhtml disapeared.

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Oracle/sun..no hopes

Since my days in computer school I was a great fan of sun's products. I Loved to work on solaris and at that time i was discovering java. Since Oracle/Sun merge, Solaris died, Mysql will and Glassfish...won't died but will disapear in a merge with Oracle own server.

As developper, I feel bad..

Fun with Processing

I actually having a lots of fun while playing with the Processing sketchbook, a great alternative to the ugly javafx stuff.

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sbt

Since i start using scala, i looked for a good tool to build my project. I already known ant,maven and ivy which are great tools for java, but when I tried to use them XML configuration file became a hell to support scala .I didn't wanted to spend time on XML configuration file anymore so i used a simple batch file.

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a web framework timeline

There's a huge number of existing web frameworks.

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scala + netbeans

Althought, I love programming using simple editor such Scite or vim when i work on windows, i often prefere to use an IDE. My favourite one, Netbeans support many other language like javafx,groovy,ruby,c/c++... and makes me save a lot's of time with automatique method generation and packaging application.

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play! with scala

Play! is a java fullstack web framework, I used it for many personals projects.I found that framework very conveniant, very easy to learn and logical. I wrote some applications with such wiki,blog and I loved GAE and OpenID support !

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scala tutorial

Scala programming laguage tutorial

Scala is a concise, elegant, type-safe programming language that integrates object-oriented and functional features and fully interoperable with Java. For this reason I strongly believe (sometimes i m wrong) it will be the next java language. Since i began to dive into i found hard to find great tutorial so heres my "step by step dive into scala".

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a great scrum video !!!

enjoy the video :

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Love scala

Has I said before, I think the next big language is scala. I didn't explain what I like in scala so, this my non-complete list of things I like on scala :

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Why scrum fails in my compagny

As project manager and old developper, I strongly believe in agile methodologies.I m not attach to a specific church but I like scrum. Few years ago, I start to use scrum in my compagny. Although, I succeed on some projects, mostly I failed more times than I succeed. Let's see why.

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Next mainstreams programing languages

When i was younger i used to program in laguages such lisp, scheme, pascal ,c and later c. At that time, i was in a computer science school and most of the teacher beleived that it was enought to learn c and c to find a job. They often said: "Just learn c and c++ and you won't have to learn any other language".

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