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Month: February 2011

  • Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the cloud? (update) — Engadget

    Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the cloud? (update) By Sean Hollister posted Feb 27th 2011 6:13PM …

  • Architects & Scrum: 4. What is the role of the architect in Scrum?

    In my last blog I presented an illustration which shows the two primary aspects of the architects’ role. On one side they play a role in strengthening the heartbeat. On the other side, they play a role in envisioning the future. The focus in this blog is on the solution architect or application architect. The…

  • Galaxy S getting Gingerbread in March

    With Nexus One users finally getting their share of Gingerbread, owners of other Android phones which were launched in 2010 may be wondering when will their receive get the Gingerbread treat. If you own a Samsung Galaxy S then hear this one out. Samsung Germany has announced that the world’s most sold Android handset will…

  • Motorola XOOM rooted [How to Guide included]

    Folks who just bought Motorola XOOM and are into hacking side of things will be pleased to know that the world’s first Honeycomb has been rooted. Care to guess the person behind this feat. We address this and provide the root guide after the jump. Koushik Dutta is the name which needs no introduction to…

  • Mettre en place une couverture de tests minimale sur une application iPhone

    Imaginons un projet mobile avec des délais très restreints et une équipe qui n’est pas familière avec la mise en place de tests unitaires sur iPhone/iPad, ça vous rappelle quelque chose ? Sur ce type de projet les tests unitaires sont souvent quasi inexistants, et les équipes sont axées sur la réalisation plutôt que sur…

  • Why we don’t need Devops

    I am a strong believer in the fact that we don’t need Devops. We’ll at least I believe we shouldn’t need Devops. And I’ll tell you why. Devops is a set of methods and procedures that is geared towards integrating the Operations specialist into the development team. This is done to the ends of developing…

  • For Mobile Apps, It’s 1996 All Over Again

    For Mobile Apps, It’s 1996 All Over Again Ben Keighran Feb 19, 2011 This guest post is by Ben Keighran, CEO & Co-Founder of Chomp, a search engine for mobile apps. 1996 was a great year in the life of the web. Netscape had launched two years earlier, Excite@home was going to wire all of our…

  • HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, But Native App Development Is An Oncoming Rocket Ship

    HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, But Native App Development Is An Oncoming Rocket Ship MG Siegler Feb 9, 2011 HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek community…

  • Imagination: Button-less iPhone 5

    This week has been a productive one for iPhone 5 rumors. One of the speculations which caught everyone’s attention was the possibility of Apple equipping iPhone 5 with a 4 inch touch-screen. MacWorld.it folks gave this rumor some thought and have come up with how Apple may go about bringing a 4 inch smartphone –…

  • Développer des applications Android avec Maven

    Il y a quelques mois de cela, je vous parlais d’industrialisation des développements Android. Tout n’était pas parfait pour être vraiment productif, notamment l’intégration entre les outils de build et l’IDE. Qu’en est-il aujourd’hui ? Peut-on enfin être aussi efficace sur du développement Android que sur du Java standard ? Ce sont les questions auxquelles…