Hello, Not sure how many of you might already read Martin Fowler's site, but he recently posted a pretty thoughtful essay regarding diversity in the IT...
Reminder from the Calendar of xp-cincinnati http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-cincinnati/cal xp-cinci meeting Tuesday September 6, 2005 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (This...
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This article was a very interesting read indeed. I can say from a female perspective that it is very intimidating to work in a male dominated field, regardless...
FYI xp-cinci, Textdrive is again offering a lifetime hosting deal. I got it last time around and I'm really happy with their support. The last few months were...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the xp-cincinnati group: September 6 meeting Come one, come all, gaze yonda, amidst the mist, lurks the...
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... I'm submitting some code. The code has some serious problems, but the (simple minded) unit test is currently passing. So part of the problem is designing...
Great, I have 8 problems lined up to play with. They are code focused though as opposed to test focused, it will be interesting to see problems from both ...
Meeting Notes for Sept on the blog. http://www.xpcincinnati.org/ Regards, -Mark http://leansoftwarecincinnati.blogspot.com/ [Non-text portions of this message...
A prebug, is a piece of code that is about to become a bug. This is much like Martin Fowler's code smells (http://www.martinfowler.com/books.html#refactoring)...
Ed, I have just been going though a similar quest in creating a C++ development guide. I used this as a guide for me. (I did not publish this, I just used it ...
Ok, so I see that the threads are all going to access the same instance of the counter. I'm not sure of the solution you are looking for, but mine is simply...
Guys, I'm doing a little exercise to learn some more Rails and Ruby. Part of this exercise involves reading an Excel spreadsheet on a Linux box. I was...
I know I'm going to date myself a bit here, but back after I graduated from college in 1981 I worked at Bell Labs and met a couple of very interesting folks:...
... A quick search this evening didn't turn up anything native in Ruby. Short of trying to write a Ruby library for this, I'd probably search for some type of...
Hello everyone! Diaspar Software, Digital Focus and ProjectSuccess would like to announce that we are co-hosting XP Day DC 2005, a 1-day eXtreme Programming...
The for loop doesn't solve the problem and you can't declare method local static variables in java. Your first solution solved it my making the counter a local...
Of the things I saw, it looks to me like the POI Ruby stuff is the closest. I bet someone with some knowledege of Ruby, SWIG, Java, etc, could finish up the...
Good morning! I found it while researching IID. I got a kick out of this so I thought some on this list might as well. "Two guys in a garage developing the...
Of course my favorite is: *Extreme Mice* The mice all stand up and ask among themselves if any of them is confident how fast he can find the cheese. No mouse...
y'know, I would've expected to find a Wiki on the other end and Mark to have penned this entry. There were many others that are hilarious, too. (Of course, for...
Thanks for the link Jim! It appears they are still having problems setting up new accounts though - anyone have any luck, or perhaps it's just me? ... -> ... ...
Jim, Good points here. Could you post this to grow_cincy_soft too. I think that is where this thread started. It reinforces the point I'm trying to make too. ...
... Visit the XP Cincinnati Weblog at http://xpcincinnati.org to see this post on the web! ... This is just a test post. I'm working on getting weblog articles...
... Awesome! It worked! Gotta love Rails -- only took a couple minutes of coding to make this work -- and that's even hacking it on to someone else's...
... Visit the XP Cincinnati Weblog at http://xpcincinnati.org to see this post on the web! ... Try replying [to the above argument] with this: OK, so the...