Since I joined SonarSource full time at the beginning of this month, I’ve been thinking a lot about ducks and belly dancers.

That seems like an odd combination, but they have more in common than you might think. Most people have heard the old saw about being like a duck: stay calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. It’s pretty much the same for belly dancers; those big, poofy pants (or skirts) they wear aren’t simply a fashion statement; they’re intended hide how hard the dancer’s legs are working in the process of making the rest of the body move.

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SonarSource is celebrating! The last few months have seen some significant milestones for the company. The biggest is that we’re 5 years in now, and still growing.

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SonarSource experiments micro-blogging with Twitter ! The purpose is to compensate the absence of a developer blog for Sonar. The concept is really simple : the team publishes regularly short stories, less than 200 characters long. Some examples are :

• screenshots of features under development
• announce of milestone/beta releases (final releases are announced on this blog)
• various thoughts
• technological experimentation, such as “great, Sonar works with last Maven 2.0.10 !”
• fun stuff, like a movie on our subversion activity

To get this most up to date information, add SonarSource to the list of people you follow on Twitter. In case you don’t have a Twitter account, you can join today or subscribe to the feed. You can also follow directly some team members : Freddy Mallet, Olivier Gaudin or myself.

Last November we announced the creation of SonarSource, a company whose objective is to carry on Sonar’s development to make it the open source reference in terms of quality management platform.



Last week, SonarSource launched its web site to support enterprises that need Professional Services around Sonar : Professional Support, Development On Demand, Consulting Services and Commercial Plugins.



Since a quick try is better than a long description, here is the address of the new web site : http://www.sonarsource.com !

We are happy and proud to announce the launch of a new company

Given Sonar’s success, we have decided to create a spin-off of Hortis, dedicated to the development and support of the product : it just happened today !

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