Archives de l’auteur : Nicolas Riousset

À propos Nicolas Riousset

Président et fondateur de NeoLegal, développe des solutions logicielles qui facilitent le quotidien des professionnels du droit des sociétés.

Hints for efficient project postmortems

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Project postmortems help improving a development process. But before planning one, ask yourself why you need it, and what will be the consequences of doing it or not. There’s nothing worse than collecting people’s feedback, and then ignoring it. If you are not ready to take actions to improve things, just don’t do a postmortem. Else, the following tips may help you get the most from your project postmortem : Continuer la lecture →

How to clean SQL Server cache before performance testing ?

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One of your customers reported some very slow Microsoft SQL Server database access times. You restored his database at home, and were able reproduce the performance issue. But after the first execution, your super-slow query is now blazing-fast. Still you didn’t make a change… This is a courtesy from the SQL Server performance engine which cached a lot of things related to your previous query execution. How can you clear/flush this SQL Server cache before executing your performance tests ?

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The 10 Most Popular Issue Trackers

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I was looking for an issue tracking/project management software, and stumbled upon this wikipedia page comparing the features of 43 of the most common ones. A bunch of features can be useful, but you won’t care about them if the job can’t be done easily and quickly, or if you fail to install the software and that there’s no one to tell you what you did wrong.

So, I looked for the most popular issue trackers. Continuer la lecture →

You think you know C++ ? Try this quiz !

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Probably because I’m currently going through some job interviews, I wasted some time today trying a few C++ quizzes. I thought I had a good knowledge of C++. Not a Bjarne Stroustrup level knowledge, but a solid one, resulting from several years developing C++ server applications. Oh man ! My ego took a hit.

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