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Scrum and XP from the trenches
2007-08-26 20:17:00 Sprinting the stories Scrum and XP from the trench describes how Scrum has been used to apply some Agile project team management methods on real life projects. Henrik Kniberg modestly describes this as a paper while it actually happens to be, well, an excellent practical guide. The specific jargon may make it a bit slightly difficult ... More About: Books , Project Management , Organization
iPhone, the ultimate test
2007-08-26 02:57:00 Bon appêtit. Steve, too tired to post anything consistent tonight, is a co-author on Tech IT Easy. You can find out more about him on this blog?s initial announcement. More About: Video , Iphone , Telecommunications , Consumer Electronics , Silicon Valley
Meet Geni : a bright Web 2.0 concept
2007-08-25 02:43:00 Since a few years, a couple of websites have provided Internet users with the ability to sketch their genealogy online, very much like some of you must have already tried with conventional desktop software (such as Family Tree Maker, or for Mac users, Mac ... More About: Economics , Friends , Meet , Bright , Geni
How can Tech IT Easy recover its glorious past Web rankings ?
2007-08-24 01:00:00 A few weeks ago, Tech IT Easy has switched from its previous URL (http://www.jeremyfain.net or http://www.jeremyfain.wordpress.com) to the current one (http://www.techiteasy.org), thus acknowledging the fact that the very nature of this blog has dramatically shifted - previously a personal blog with occasional outside contributions, now a truly collective blog, capitalizing ... More About: Internet , Blogroll , Past
Join our Facebook group ?faithful readers of Tech IT Easy?
2007-08-23 01:03:00 It’s an open group so feel free to join. The menu says: dog food, feedbacks, fun, suggestions, insults, free lunch, events, teasers, and..dating? It’s all there: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=476 7374865 My call: the FB group will replace the blog in the long run…not! More About: Software , Europe , Internet , Entertainment , Project Management
12 non technical tips to design kick ass software architectures
2007-08-21 23:55:00 I actually learnt what software architecture means something like 9 months - when Jean-Sébastien and Pierre discussed the architecture of CartoReso and I was listening, eyes wide opened not understanding the slightest bit of what was going on. However, it didn’t take long for me to realize how crucial designing a smart and robust architecture ... More About: Software , Google , Security , Internet , Design
The life of a software developer, episode 1/4
2007-08-21 00:10:00 Jérémy suggested that I describe my different experiences as a software developer in a set of articles, and I found this approach really interesting. I will start here with my first big experience as a developer during my company creation, and then I will continue with the different projects I?ve realized in my current company. ... More About: Software , Internet , Life , Episode , Organization
Welcoming Cecil Dijoux on Tech IT Easy!
2007-08-20 18:42:00 Dear readers! I am happy to introduce a new blogger joining our team: Cecil Dijoux! Cecil brings a lot to the table here at Tech IT Easy . He’s a father of two (important), has good taste in music (very important), has broad experiences writing for magazines, and most recently on his blog, about music, culture, business, ... More About: Software , Internet , Friends
Copycat
2007-08-20 01:32:00 Twitter freaks like me have recently taken some heat for slowing their blog posting pace because they were twitting. Lazy us. So I decided to occasionally post some tweets (ie very small arcticles) on this blog. Here’s one. At school, pupils are taught not to cheat on one’s neighbour. Cheating is like stealing or killing someone: ... More About: Internet , Entertainment , Apple , Microsoft , Project Management
How Web 2.0 startups can get acquired by eBay, MS & Google
2007-08-19 22:30:00 Mmm, the title of this post is teasing enough that I guess it’s going to attract quite a crowd. Anyways, here’s the answer: a sine qua non condition to be acquired by EBAY, MSFT or GOOG is basically to at least meet with them. Correct? If you realize the answer to this question is “yes”, then ... More About: Google , Internet , Microsoft , Finance , Networks
?Guess who I am? N°9 - easy one?
2007-08-19 17:33:00 This one’s easy, really easy. It’s Sunday and I want you to get some good sleep before resuming work tomorrow. As usual, I’ll be glad to get the winner a beer / coffee / Diet Coke whenever I get a buzz from her / him. There you go. Guess who I am: - I was born & ... More About: Education , Guess Who , Easy
Editors vs. journalists in blogging - an opinion piece
2007-08-16 16:29:00 I’ve just made a written agreement (on Twitter of all places!) that I will write at least one post for Tech IT Easy per week! The reason is of course partly time-constraints ? I have plenty of other ventures I am active in and excited about ? but particularly maintaining a certain level of quality, ... More About: Opinion , Blogging , Editors , Piece , Journalist
The 21st Century: What will it look like?
2007-08-15 09:00:00 Peter Pesti, a student at Georgia Tech University wrote this roadmap to the 21st century. His document is really worth taking a closer look as he brought together predictions from many different (scientific) ressources, covering mostly the fields of technology, economics and climate conditions. The video on YouTube is a shorter version of his long ... More About: Internet , Century
What place does the web take?
2007-08-14 09:01:00 Ok, not taking a holiday then. Thanks Fidji! No, I’m kidding. There are no rules on this blog, and if I or others feel like posting, that is simply what we do. I expect things to get back to normal in a few weeks. In the Starbucks-book, which I wrote about a little while ago, Howard ... More About: Internet , Entertainment , Friends , Networks , Place
Welcoming Rémy Miralles on Tech IT Easy
2007-08-13 19:37:00 Despite the fact that summer is a slow blogging period, Tech IT Easy remains attractive for bloggers: please join me in welcoming Rémy Miralles, a new blogger on Tech IT Easy. We have been looking for a long time to add a technical profile to our team of bloggers: as a French software engineer, Rémy will ... More About: Software , Globalization , Internet , Education , Friends
On Blogging vacation
2007-08-13 08:33:00 Dear friends, colleagues, tourist-readers, Yes, bloggers are apparently human too. Just wanted to let our readers know that pretty much every one of us is on some holiday or at least too busy too blog at the moment. We’ll be back soon, don’t worry. Until then, check out our backlog, or read some great blogs like ... More About: Blogging , Vacation
Is everything ?plain and simple? with Google?
2007-08-09 16:36:00 In recent years there has always been some suspicion about Google collecting data from its users and their search queries. Now the company startet a series of videos explaining basic privacy concepts on YouTube. The announcement was made on the official Google blog. This might be an answer to a recent poll conducted by Hakia which ... More About: Security , Internet , Plain , Simple
About visualization tools
2007-08-09 03:44:00 Some people manage to analyse and remember information by writing, hearing or visualizing it. I am definitely part of the latest type. This is why I am really interested in tools appearing on the web to visualize some experiences like shopping, search and social networking. Some of these tools serve a practical purpose whereas others focus ... More About: Software , Internet , Tools , Entertainment , Friends
Coolblue.nl - business structure, long tails, and growing in Europe
2007-08-08 10:50:00 My first, no second, Dutch article since I started here. Shocking! I’m fascinated by company structures, as you may well know, particularly those that promote a higher customer satisfaction (making a difference) and growth (on a higher scale). As I’m no internet-guy (I don’t program, I use), and I really am more focussed on ?hard? and ... More About: Business , Europe , Economics , Globalization , Internet
Healthy innovation - Is ?Zero? the way forward for Coca-Cola?
2007-08-04 11:35:00 I was a little sceptical when I first ran across Coke Zero in Barcelona last year (see pic). How is this different from Diet Coke, I thought. A smart entrepreneur at the last incubator I worked at, suggested that it is a form of A/B marketing. Coke is marketing the silver Diet-brand at women and ... More About: Europe , Globalization , Innovation , Coca-Cola , Business Intelligence
People First! - learning from Ratatouille and Pixar
2007-08-02 12:03:00 This is an ironic topic to write about for me, as at uni, I’ve avoided Human Resource courses like the plague. As a matter of fact, I never got along with a single HR-manager that interviewed me. They seem focussed on placing me in a box, while I am focussed on not fitting in one. ... More About: Education , People , Apple , Project Management , Organization
Encouraging words for bloggers from ?Getting Real?
2007-07-31 12:13:00 Last night, I decided to read a few chapters in ‘Getting Real ‘, a book by the good people of 37Signals, to guide people towards building better (software-) products. I was surprised to find this chapter on staffing: Hire good writers If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill a position, always hire the ... More About: Education , Words , Bloggers , Logger
Can Second Life become a touristic spot?
2007-07-30 22:28:00 ?Abbots Aerodrome is the place to go if you have a head for heights and a taste for adventure. If you?re visiting on a budget, arrive only to beat the crowds and then head to the top of the skydiving tower.? You probably think that it is an excerpt from a Lonely Planet or another ... More About: Globalization , Internet , Life , Entertainment , Friends
The power of statistics and why the ?why? doesn?t matter
2007-07-30 12:47:00 What do books like ‘Freakonomics‘ and ‘The Long Tail‘ (which I haven’t read yet) teach us? That statistics is an immensely powerful tool for getting at the underlying behaviour of people. It’s rationalised observation really, for books like ‘Blink‘ teach us the same thing? minus some of the numbers perhaps. In ?real life,? so far I ... More About: Software , Security , Economics , Globalization , Internet
Starbucks - an example of vertical integration
2007-07-28 14:31:00 After my brief stint into the world of McDonalds (read thoughts here and here), I decided to learn about what I thought was another franchise, but a more modern one: Starbucks. Turns out I was mistaken and it is not a franchise at all. Instead, the company is immensely vertically integrated for one purpose ... More About: Europe , Economics , Globalization , Books , Finance
X ways Facebook works for me
2007-07-27 12:43:00 I’ve only been on the Facebook for a few weeks, but I’m loving it and am trying to migrate my friends from other networks on there too. Here are X ways (I hate top-10 posts), I dig this social network. A way to keep track of my closest (and most distant) friends I used to keep mailing-lists, ... More About: Internet , Entertainment , Networks , Business Intelligence , Works
Inbox Zero
2007-07-26 10:19:00 A couple of weeks ago, Jeremy wrote that he can’t keep up with his bloated inbox anymore and there were some good ideas in that post’s comments. The ever-increasing Inbox seems to be a problem for more and more people. Some people try to be part of the solution and not the problem. I, for one, like ... More About: Videoblogging
Jazz battle @ a distance
2007-07-22 02:35:00 In response to Ouriel who claims he found the best jazz piano - voice extract ever, here’s Tuck & Patti (I saw them live in Paris @ Vincennes floral park in 2006, and they’re just amazing) performing a jazzy medley of bluesy Jimmy Hendrix’s Castle Made of Sand and Little Wing. This is probably the ... More About: Video , Google , Entertainment , Israel , Jazz
Why iPhone won?t matter in Europe
2007-07-20 10:50:00 Many Apple fans are salivating over the rumored launch of Apple’s long-awaited mobile device in Europe . These fans (who put ”fan” in ”fanatic”) are reading the American echo-chamber-blogs and are certain that Apple will not only introduce iPhone in Europe this year, but it will be also revolutionary. As a card-carrying Nokialand citizen who, though, has never owned ... More About: Iphone , Telecommunications , Matter
The E-myth revisited
More articles from this author:2007-07-19 15:19:00 After Vince?s book review of the MacDonald?s Franchise system, I thought that I would make a review of « The E-Myth revisited » by Michael E. Gerber, who sees the « Franchise mind » as a key success factor for small businesses. It is quite an old book, but I have been amazed by the simplicity and the truthfulness ... More About: Internet , Business strategy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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