This is an interesting survey done by bestvendor.com. They’ve interviewed 500 developers from companies of less than 100 people, asking them their choice of tools for their development environment. It’s interesting to notice that some categories are clearly dominated by one product: Eclipse is killing everyone else, MySQL is the obvious choice, Git has become [...]
As you know, mobile web is hot, hot, hot and mobile might very well replace desktop in the next few years (the jury is out on that one!) Some latest stats to support this trend: There will be more mobile internet users than wireline users in the US by 2015. 6B mobile connections by the [...]
Last year, I’ve watched the talk Fred Wilson gave at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference in February 2010. I’ve stumbled upon it today and treated myself with another watch. This is so inspiring to me that I thought I would share it here. If you have 30 minutes during the day, treat [...]
This week in software and performance testing A few Observations on structure in testing Over the years, it’s been common for people in our community to mention exploratory testing, only to have someone reply, “Oh, so that’s like unstructured testing, right?” That’s a little like someone refer to a cadenza or a musical solo as [...]
Who doesn’t like sorting algorithm? No? Nobody? That’s the way I’ve learned bubble sort for example (yeah that’s the easiest one and not the most optimized) Well, it looks like there are more creative ways nowadays! Look at these Hungarian performing a bubble-sort! Brilliant. They also have insert, shell and select so far.
As we’re getting close to enter soon the Exabyte age (especially when we’ll have millions of sensor everywhere !), I wanted to get my head around the state of data today and wanted to share with you my opinion about where I think data is headed.
After 4 years, the wait is finally over ! The World Cup started last Friday. Beside bringing lots of excitement all over the world, lots of buzzing ears due to too many Vuvuzela, it also seems that the World Cup is brining a lot of pain to the Twitter engineering team. It might not be [...]
As you might know, I tweet quite a bit of interesting posts, stories or article I find on the web that can be of interest to everyone involved in Software Development, Software Testing and Leadership. The best way to keep track of my tweets is simply to follow me on Twitter. However, in case you [...]
