Junior developers have to learn so many things on the job, because they’re not taught in school. Samuel, from Spiria Montreal, shares his top five lessons:
Filing a patent application is an expensive proposition that can be a major investment for a new company. A common mistake of rookie applicants is to give their patent too narrow a scope, seriously constricting their ability to fully take advantage…
It is a fact that code is read far more often than it is written. This is why it is so important to make it readable.
During a recent Agile Tour, I attended a workshop (led by Alain Benoît and Jean-Christophe Lauffer) on how to use the technique of User Story Mapping to visualize the right product for the client. It was a great activity. Here’s an overview of how…
The Discovery process is an intense collaboration tailored to find relevant and innovative answers to the digital challenges faced by enterprises.
For most of us, the word accessibility means to have access to something. Wikipedia defines it more specifically as “…the design of products, devices … or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities”.
Documentation, consistency, reusability, code reviews, unit tests, scalability… processes and standards that make the difference. Kevin from Spiria Toronto tells you more.
Junior developers have to learn so many things on the job, because they’re not taught in school. Wajid, from Spiria Toronto, shares his top three lessons.
Melissa, who has a wealth of experience in project management, suggests practical solutions to the top three problems most often encountered in application and Web site development projects:
Too many people think of Agile as nothing more than Scrum and a bunch of rituals. But perform a rite and lose sight of its purpose, and you’ll end up far from Agile.
A legacy system is any software, hardware, or storage peripheral that is still in use despite being obsolete. And it doesn’t have to be that old; for example, it could be a version of a software that’s just been out a couple of years but no longer…
Malicious attacks on corporate IT systems are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. The consequences of an intrusion can be disastrous, and can even threaten a company’s very survival. Here are 10 best practices to reinforce IT security.
Software has become a major driver of technological innovation, with its role steadily increasing to make up a larger piece of the development puzzle. This means that more thought must be given to requirements and development methodologies to…
Keeping up-to-date with emergent technologies is not always easy, but with the right mindset and a little extra time, it’s never too late to learn something new.
“Junior” — the first rung on a developer’s career ladder — is the one we’re all in a hurry to get past. While distinctions between what a “junior,” “intermediate” or “senior” developer may vary, opinions are unanimous when it comes to a few specific…
Social networks are rife with stories illustrating how hiring the cheapest company or lowest bidder to perform a professional service ended up costing more over the long run. This holds true in the software world. Just as with construction work…
Cloud technologies are experiencing exponential growth: back in 2013, the market was already valued at a very respectable US$53 billion, and now predictions for 2020 top US$191 billion!
Growing the company, making it more efficient, providing it with a competitive advantage, engaging and stimulating teams: the advantages of integrating creativity in your company’s daily life are numerous.
In an increasingly competitive, demanding market, there is no vacation from innovation. Companies that don’t innovate, stagnate.
Let the odyssey begin!Over the last 10 years, I have embarked on every new project as if it were an odyssey. As a designer, I am very involved in the first phases of new projects, when we’re sailing blind in uncharted waters.Any new bespoke software…
It’s hard not to worry about your data when you hear of all these security breaches, even within mega companies that should have been bullet-proof! It just goes to show that no-one is safe, regardless of size or field of activity.
Everyone has heard a horror story about an IT project that ended up costing twice as much as expected and delivered half as much as promised. As a general rule, managers hate any cost overrun, regardless of the type of investment. But let’s face it…
Nowadays, all the main technologies used on the Web follow World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. Be it HTML, CSS, or SVG, its implementation must follow the rules set out in a standards document called a W3C Recommendation. The goal of these…
Let’s start with a reminder of what Agile values above all else: individuals. You can have the best technique, the most elegant code and the most efficient algorithm, but if your team doesn’t work well together, none of it will mesh.
In this article, we will discuss one way of sharing sensitive information over the Internet. Encrypting images on a Mac and sharing them with Dropbox is a popular way of sending files over the Internet.
In the Scrum methodology, retrospectives are a chance to stop and think about a project and re-examine the way the team works: its methodology, development tools or other factors that could enhance the team’s effectiveness.
As we have seen, the Kanban system as applied to software development is quite far removed from its original form, which was devised in Japan to build cars. The only thing the two still have in common is similar objectives and the use of cards to…
[Photo Spiria.]Toyota’s KanbanKanban is a scheduling system for just-in-time manufacturing. Developed in the 1950s at Toyota, it has since become a rational organization standard for a wide variety of assembly lines the world over.
Atlassian is a software editor that is little-known by the public at large, yet has a worldwide following among companies that practice the Agile work methodology. Atlassian has brilliantly demonstrated how to succeed with a product that is not…
There are two types of code documentation: private documentation, produced by and for the developers to enhance code readability and intelligibility, and public documentation, produced as a reference for users of the code.
Nowadays, it is possible to make a living as a software developer without a university degree. Though you’ll need advanced skills and knowledge, you don’t necessarily need to obtain any particular accreditation or sit exams. Of course, programmers…
An article published in La Presse where our president, Stephane Rouleau, discusses the challenges of growing a business and the solutions we have found. MARTIN PRIMEAU, special collaboration, La Presse
In any project, one of the many accepted tools in software development is the practice of code reviews. The most astounding thing about this practice is that nobody really knows why code reviews are important. Many people resign themselves to…
Nowadays, users expect all software to be easy to use. As such, “user-friendliness” is a demand that our creative team often hears. We usually tackle this challenge with the following mantra: the way to design simple and user-friendly software is…
Designing user-friendly software … We tend to associate user-friendliness and simplicity. Often, however, the opposite is true. “User-friendly” means that the system is friendly to the user; not the stakeholders or the metaphorical mother. Users can…
I recently got my hands on the book "Ten Types of Innovation" by Larry Keeley, Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn and Helen Walters. I had made this great find thanks to a blog post by Julie Delisle on the beeye site. The ten types of innovation were…
A couple of years ago, I was much, much younger. At least by a few years, if not more. I was also fortunate enough to enroll into an EMBA program. I sort of had the money, sort of had the time, and definitely had the support of my better half and…
“Intuitive, simple and easy to use” are the words that automatically come to mind each time we think or talk about desktop software or mobile applications user interfaces (UI).The simplicity and easiness of the UI, which is used daily by the general…
In February 2001, the 17 apostles of lightweight software development met for a weekend in a mythical place called the “Snowbird resort, Utah”, now known as the birthplace of the Agile movement. They came out with 12 principles, out of which they…
It is impossible not to talk about team and collaboration when talking about agility. The team and the people that make it up form the first value of the Agile Manifesto: “People and their interactions more than processes and tools. »
A few weeks ago it was the Confoo. I only went there on Wednesday. My goal was to make a summary of the conferences I attended, but, for my part, there was one conference that really stood out from the others. So I decided to share the information…
I’ve been reading Asimov’s book lately and it made me wonder, what those three laws should be for a developer?Here’s what I think : A developer will not write unreadable code, code that break software or, through inaction…
For the ones which are new to using eclipse, here is a feature which is very useful, but not well known. Eclipse allows to see modifications from SVN directly in the editor, while you type, and to see modified, added and removed lines in a blink of…
I recently stumbled upon an article called “10 Reasons to Avoid Test Driven Development”, and reading that article made me sad. But probably not for the reason you think.
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