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La mise en conformité avec le GDPR/RGPD ne doit pas nécessairement être pénible et douloureuse pour les startups tech. LEAN est le mot d’ordre. Vous devrez malgré tout y mettre du vôtre. Avec un avantage compétitif à la clé. GDPR. Un des buzzwords du moment. RGPD en français, terme qu’on n’utilise pas trop en Belgique. Beaucoup de sociétés sont au courant de son existence, sur le ton du : “Ah oui, le GDPR. (…)

Last year I let my Scrum Alliance certification expire. In IT, certifications are part of the business. A third-party assesses that you possess some skillset. You typically pass a written exam and, or course, you pay for it. Most of the time they don’t prove you are able to perform in the given field; merely that the basics are covered. To become a Certified Scrum Master, you have to follow a two-days training, then take an online evaluation. (…)

One of the many good things with the LG Nexus 5X is its currentness. Unlike virtually every other Android smartphone, this one is always up-to-date. You don’t have to hope and wait for the manufacturer to roll out the latest release. And it’s "vanilla" Android, which means less room for the manufacturer to mess up with its own gimmicks. But before pressing the "Upgrade" button, I googled for horror stories. (…)

Epilogue: after 2 failed repairs, the Apple Store in Brussels finally gave me a new MacBook Pro. I have summarized my unpleasant journey with Apple in a video: Epilogue - MBP replaced Frequent freezes when resuming from screen sleep, and failure to connect to WiFi when booting up with some device attached. I brought it to the Apple Store in Brussels for a repair.A few days later, I went back to pick it up. (…)

Can the Apple MacBook Pro be considered as a "pro" laptop? I don’t think so. It’s been 17 days that I brought my MacBook Pro late 2016 to the Apple Store Brussels for a repair. Freezes and wifi issues first. Got the laptop back "repaired", only to find out it was now completely unusable with a stuck trackpad. Theses two articles are computer horror stories in themselves. But read on. (…)

So my MacBook Pro was not working great, with frequent freezes when resuming from screen sleep, and failure to connect to WiFi when booting up with some device attached. See here. After countless calls and chats with the Apple support, and several manipulations including a re-install, I brought it to the Apple Store in Brussels for a repair. I wasn’t out of the store yet that I noticed a faulty trackpad (it was stuck) and the laptop crashed several times on the reinstallation screen. (…)

My MacBook Pro late 2016 (with the TouchBar) is a great disappointment. On top of questionable design choices, I’m facing two issues: Frequent freezes when resuming from screen sleep, specially when plugged to LG 4k display Failure to connect to WiFi when booting up with some device attached For a change, I’ve made two (boring) videos demonstrating the issue. Resume from sleep freeze WiFi issues Needless to stay, I’ve spent a lot of time with the friendly Apple support (chat or phone), and I’ve tried several manipulations in order to troubleshoot the issue. (…)

L’histoire commence à un mariage, où je n’étais pas présent. Au bar, un ami bavarde avec un inconnu qui, après avoir échangé quelques mots d’usage, lui apprend qu’il est fonctionnaire à la Commission européenne et qu’il cherche un développeur Java. Cet ami en prend bonne note et me transmet ses coordonnées. Peu de temps après, je rencontre ce fonctionnaire et son équipe, et passe un entretien d’embauche. Je suis retenu pour le poste. (…)

L’appel d’offres, également connu sous l’appellation RFP (Request For Proposal), est un moyen courant pour les entreprises publiques de choisir un fournisseur. Mal nécessaire dans le secteur public où l’on n’a encore rien trouvé mieux pour conserver les apparences d’objectivité et d’égalité, cette pathologie s’est largement répandue au secteur privé, sous des formes cependant moins aiguës et qui se limitent d’ordinaire à quelques centaines de questions sur le logiciel à fournir. (…)

We run a Grails application with Spring Security. Our integration tests are slow: 5m34s for 414 tests including about 45secs app boot time. That’s about 1,4 test per second. Not that great. These tests are mainly functional tests, using GEB. I suspected the overhead of the browser automation would be the culprit, but when it comes to performance, measure, don’t guess. I started writing well scoped tests: one that does nothing, one that hit a dummy controller that returns ok, one that creates a Company and cleans it afterwards, one that creates a Company and an Employee － a pattern we use extensively in our tests. (…)