Book review : HTML5 for web designers
HTML5 for web designers is the first book from A Book Apart, a new publishing company specializing in writing brief books on various web topics. All those books are about 100 pages long, laser...
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CSS3 for web designers is the second book from A Book Apart, a new publishing company specializing in writing brief books on various web topics. All those books are about 100 pages long, laser...
View ArticleMicrosoft WebCamps Brussels - Summary
Last Monday was organized the Microsoft WebCamps event in Brussels. Dedicated to Web developers and UX designers, this one day event enables you to stay up-to-date with the latest stuff. Topics...
View ArticleUsing Google Docs to translate your projects
At work, we’re currently building a business application using Silverlight 4. One of the requirements is the support of multiple languages. Google Docs proves to be very useful in this context. Just...
View ArticleFibonacci numbers for agile estimates
During the sprint planning, team members give estimates about the tasks they’re going work on in the coming sprint. Maybe some of you have already experienced that endless discussion about “is this a...
View ArticleImproving your project consistency with checklists
Almost every project has recurring operations consisting of several steps. The problem when there’s a lot of steps is that you have to know them by heart otherwise your project may become inconsistent...
View ArticleImprove your project quality : ask the team
At work, our tech lead (architect on an agile project) recently asked every developer of the team, under the form of little 1 to 1 meetings, what in his opinion could be improved. Because every...
View ArticleBook review : WPF 4 training kit
I bought this book with the only objective to pass the WPF4 MCTS exam and I aced it ! So, this official training kit did the job. But let’s talk about the content and some remarks. The book covers the...
View ArticleBook review : Smart & Gets Things Done
Joël Spolsky, a former Microsoft employee, created his company Fog Creek Software based on the strong belief that hiring top software developers, treating them like rock stars and providing them the...
View ArticleBook review : Framework design guidelines
Co-written by two Microsoft employees at the time (Brad Abrams now working at Google), this book is actually a publication of Microsoft guidelines that were produced along the way during the...
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