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Thanks to Nathan on coderspiel, I stumbled upon this excellent article : Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks. So true ! ++

I had already read some books on usability. The last one had about 400 pages and lots of texts. It laid out 10 (or 12) rules regarding usability. I can’t even remember one ! On the other hand, Steve Krug’s Don’t make me think is still deeply in my mind. Not only the author applied [...]

At work, we’re currently reviewing our Agile process. So I thought it was a nice occasion to read again Scrum and Xp from the trenches, esp. since we have a paper edition of it. Simply put, this book is why I started to be so much interested in Agile software development : the process it [...]

I bought Effective Java 2nd edition last year. I loved it immediately, and since I’m frequently reading bits of it again. I even think I should read it all over another time. Indeed, Joshua Bloch items are more than just “do this, do that” : he takes care of explaining them in great depth. It [...]