What Happens to Non-Enthusiast Programmers in the Long Run ?
A few months ago, after receiving good feedback from my regular readers, I posted my latest article Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer ? on H...
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Verify the Big O Complexity of Ruby Code in RSpec
It might be possible to discover performance regressions before running your long and large scale benchmarks !
How I got my feet wet with machine learning with ‘The First 20 Hours’
I’m currently wrapping up an alpha of a unit testing ruby gem that allows to assert the complexity of a piece of code. It’s the result of an experiment to le...
Overclocking a Scrum Team to 12
From Wikipedia : Overclocking is configuration of computer hardware components to operate faster than certified by the original manufacturer …
Video for our talk ‘Extreme Practices’ is on YouTube
As I already wrote about before, my colleague Ahmad from Beirut gave a talk at Agile Tour Beirut about how we adopted XP to a distributed team at work. I was...
How to kill Scrum Zombies ?
First of all, what is that ? Usually, Scrum zombies go in groups, and quite often, you’ll find a full team of them :
Continuously Deliver a Rails App to your DigitalOcean Box using Docker
I decided to use my latest side project as an occasion to learn Docker. I first used Heroku as a platform for deployment (see previous post). It works fine b...
ReXP : Remote eXtreme Programming
My colleague Ahmad from Beirut gave a talk at Agile Tour Beirut on Saturday about how we adopted XP to a distributed team at work. I gave him a hand and play...