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Georges-Etienne Legendre is a software engineer and has been working in the Quebec City region since several years. He's interested in different aspects of software engineering practice, and while browsing the Web, he shares here his opinions and insights on this subject.

You can contact Georges-Etienne by email or via this form.

Interests

• Software engineering
• Software design and architecture
• Software testing and quality assurance
• Free softwares
• Agile software development
• Computer security
• Ergonomics and user experience

Specialities

• Software architecture and development for high performance, reliability and availability applications (VoIP component, Web applications, etc.)
• Test-driven development (TDD), test automation, continuous integration
• Various technical skills with Java-based technologies, GNU/Linux, OS X, Mozilla, etc.

Teaching

• Laval University: Software Quality And Metrics, Fall 2009 and 2008

• about one day ago

  RT @StephaneArguin: Les mentalités changent enfin? (Informatique) La STM suspend un appel d'offres - http://t.co/DRVoSwN via @Radio_Canada

• 2 days ago

  Stagiaire en génie logiciel ou informatique recherché pour l'hiver 2011 chez #Bell à Québec! #ULaval

• 3 days ago

  RT @Guglielminetti: YouTube propose des films et documentaires en version intégrale http://ow.ly/2xF4o (via @e_veilleur)

• 4 days ago

  Richard Stallman (@GNU_RMS) sera au Salon du Logiciel Libre du Québec #ulaval les 6 et 7 déc - http://tinyurl.com/29yhqs3

• 4 days ago

  Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs' http://bit.ly/bqxXZM

• 5 days ago

  JavaOne 2010 will not lack for drama, intrigue, and conspiracy theories http://bit.ly/bPWkkE

• 7 days ago

  Only time will tell how much damage Oracle has made to the Java community. I'm not saying that Google is perfectly right either.

• Piwik - Web analytics
• ASIHTTPRequest Amazon S3 example code - All-Seeing Interactive
• Core Resource
• Importing legacy data into Core Data with the find-or-create (or delete) pattern – The Pug Automatic
• http://www.spatialdatabox.com/map-demos/cell-tower-canada-map.html
• Canadian Cellular Towers Map
• Michael Feathers' Blog: Zeno-Length Iterations

• Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Stephen G. Kochan
• Cocoa Design Patterns Erik M. Buck
• Clean Code Robert C. Martin
• The Art of UNIX Programming Eric S. Raymond
• Essentials of Software Engineering Frank F. Tsui
• Software Quality Engineering Jeff Tian