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Je viens de finir de lire The Old New Thing. L’auteur, Raymond Chen, a bosse dans l’equipe de developpement de Windows depuis 1995 (au moins) et il raconte les raisons de certaines decisions prises pendant le design de differentes versions de Windows, depuis 1985 jusqu’a Vista. Le livre est une compil’ des meilleurs articles de [...]

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/08/28/hey_mr_policeman_wga/
Anyone with half a brain cell understands perfectly well that [Windows Genuine Advantage] is all to Microsoft’s “advantage” - and confers no benefit whatsoever on the customer; just tons of unnecessary hassle. For years, I’ve felt that Microsoft has lost the plot as far as Windows is concerned - now I’m convinced of it

Ever wondered how POP, IMAP, SMTP and other cryptic protocols work? Well, Google has created a video that explains everything :)

I’ve been tagged by Sandrine! :) Voici donc mes réponses:

Le site que vous consultez en premier le matin (après votre blog): Google Reader
Un service que vous venez de découvrir et qui vous amuse / séduit: Twitter et Wink
Un blog dont vous appréciez beaucoup le design: Daring Fireball by [...]

Brilliant.
It’s striking how often programmers manage to hit all eight points by accident. Someone has an idea for a new project, but because it’s not officially sanctioned, he has to do it in off hours—which turn out to be more productive because there are no distractions. Driven by his enthusiasm for the new project he [...]

Howard and LeBlanc give a very complete answer to this question in their classic “Writing Secure Code” book:
Most testing is about proving that some feature works as specified in the functional specifications. If the feature deviates from its specification, a bug is filed, the bug is usually fixed, and the updated feature is retested. Testing [...]

Introduction
Even if Design by Contract is a trademark (Eiffel Software, 2007) the idea behind it is the more general one of “defensive programming”. As software developers, we often concentrate our efforts in the main code of the application, which is the interesting part, and that provides the realization of the use cases identified during the [...]

Thanks to Adam for the link!

Introduction
I’m not such a “power user” when it comes to web browsing, and having good connectivity both at home and at work helps forgetting about tweaking the maximum number of TCP connections in my web browser. However, I can think of a two cases where the establishment of multiple connections might bring great value to [...]

Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center is an enterprise-class solution, recognized as one of the most complete and integrated software suites geared towards the management of testing- and quality-related activities. Mercury Interactive, the company behind TestDirector, was bought by Hewlett Packard in 2006 for USD 4.5 billion (Wikipedia). TestDirector is used by several important organizations such [...]