I'm very happy to announce that Microsoft has announced initial support for database refactoring and testing within VSTS. I've known about this for some time...
I will be out of the office starting 31/05/2006 and will not return until 27/06/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. ... This e-mail message...
Shane.McCormack@...
Jun 2, 2006 4:06 pm
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The Declaration of Interdependance by Alistair Cockburn At the 2004 Agile Development Conference, a number of project, product, and management experts started...
I just posted http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileUsability.htm which explores how usability and user experience design can be brought into agile...
(responding to Brad) ... (http://blog.bradapp.net/) ... Okay, it's a while ago since this was posted, but on other forums the thread has now spawned...
... Paul: The Beck rules are in priority order, and the third one is "the code expresses all your design ideas". So if your design ideas include another class,...
(responding to Ron) ... Ah! Thanks for the clarification, I hadn't interpreted the rule in that way. I'll paste the entire rule set from one of your XP list...
... Arent there somewhat analagous rules for writing "clear" prose as evidence by Joseph Williams (in the book "Style") and Strunk & White? Something that uses...
Brad, I believe the value/disvalue of redundancy is quite different between human language and computer language, whereas correctness, clarity, and conciseness...
I'm designing Object Persistent framework and come across the problem where is class object ID must be identical with database primary key? or it can be...
... I think there's a difference between removing duplication, and express all one's design ideas. (Note that the Beck rule refers to the human's ideas, not...
I was saying only that "removing duplication", while very important for maintainable software, is often counterproductive in human communication. I did not at...
The answer may vary depending on the ORM tool you are using. For example with Hibernate, you can map any field/combination of fields as your PK. Also you are...
Hi Scott, Fascinating article. I wasn't aware of the whole UED community and it seems to fit exactly with a problem space I am thinking about right now. Of...
(responding to Tim) ... Good point. I'm accustomed to hearing the topic called UEX; User Experience. I guess it's an 'aspect'; something that follows a...
(responding to Sherlyn) ... I concur with Maksim. ObjectID is best regarded as something managed by the OO system or language, that we know exists but cannot...
... This brings to mind a set of desirable properties for requirements I collected several years ago. Bear in mind this was for Big Up Front ways of...
What's interesting about the requirements properties is that we can separate them into intrinsic properties (of the requirement itself) and process properties...
(responding to Steve) ... Nice try, but rather ambiguous. I've been toying with invention of words - how about 'counterpolysemantic'? :-) The trouble with...
(responding to Jesper) ... I reasoned long and hard about this before (i.e. at least 3 seconds) and concluded that a statement could have 2 meanings, both of...
Tim, thanks for outing me. ;-) Yes, I am currently in the process of joining IBM where I will be working for Per Kroll in the Process/Methods group. I will...
(responding to John) ... 'Consistent' and 'Coherent' (e.g. whether requirements contradict each other and whether they all belong to the same system) apply to...
-- snip ... -- snip I would hold out for Grand Pubah :-) Andy...
aruszin@...
Jun 6, 2006 12:26 pm
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"Certain" is probably a pretty good equivalent for unambiguous, especially when paired with "clear". I would take a little issue with Steve's point (1) in the...
(responding to Andy) ... Hmm - perhaps not very embracing of change? ... Tick. ... Now that's a borderline candidate for replacing 'unambiguous' but doesn't...
... Well, the [Webster 7] definition for "ambiguous" is "doubtful or uncertain", so I'd say "certain" is about as good as you could get for "unambiguous". It...
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