Project support

Android offers a great tool to leverage the quality of apps : Lint. Lint can check missing translations, unused resources and other common mistakes in Android programming. Nevertheless, up to now it was not possible to use Lint inside automated builds (i.e. on a Continuous Integration server like Jenkins). This situation just changed with release 3.5.1 of the Android Maven Plugin.

During my last two missions, I was involved in coaching a project team for Agile adoption. What struck me about these missions is that although both missions were very similar (same objective, same OCTO team, same team characteristics on the client side) we were able to significantly improve Agile adoption by our client by using “Shu Ha Ri”. This article aims to explain “Shu Ha Ri”, to show how we have applied it and the benefits that it can bring.

There is one major flaw you must have encountered whilst working with Silverlight for a while: its incompatibility with unit tests! Unless you’ve been using Silverlight solely for drawing circles and rectangles, surely you must have tried to use the Silverlight Toolkit unit test project template to try to put some TDD in your project ! ...most probably you were disappointed by it because it’s fairly poor...

After working more than a year on different projects using PowerShell (v1 and v2), I would like to share with you some Best practices that I could identify. I decided to write this article when I realized that I was always using the same tips/tricks and asking people working with PowerShell to use them as well. Some of the tips that I’ll give may seem stupid and/or quite common (not to say mandatory), in the development world... But scripting is not really part of the…