[Note: this is a slightly different message from my mod_perl post, so skip to the end if you've read that one and want to hear a bit about the book status. --...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Apr 11, 2004 4:34 pm
I finally got enough time to put my book online: www.extremeperl.org The book is evolving. I hope to finish the continuous design chapter fairly soon....
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Sieg_Heintze
Apr 21, 2004 6:17 pm
I'm looking for a perl programming partner in the Boulder area to bop over to my home office for 10 hours a week and pair program with with me. I've been...
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chudpi
Apr 26, 2004 9:18 pm
Rob, What would be the best way of providing you with direct feedback? I'm enjoying the book tremendously so far and would like to offer a couple of...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Apr 27, 2004 12:38 am
... Well, we're not exactly flooded with msgs on this list, and I enjoy the kind of feedback public discussion provides. Why not try sending a point or two to...
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chudpi
Apr 27, 2004 3:14 am
After reviewing the list of things I marked, there is only one which would qualify as 'constructive.' In Chapter 2, the last sentence in the Feedback section...
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Lance Wicks
lwicks_2000
Apr 27, 2004 7:48 am
Rob, I would just like to say how much I enjoyed reading your online version of the book. (I lost track a bit on some of the code examples, I have to confess) ...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Apr 27, 2004 8:43 am
... I'm a recent joiner. I got a pointer to your site out of the blue - not from one my usual XP sources - so I suspect word is spreading. I've not seen an...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Apr 27, 2004 8:44 am
Hi, ... [snip] While I still have not had the time to read the book (sorry Rob :-) I would guess that Johannes means that feedback is integral in the XP ...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Apr 27, 2004 9:29 am
Hi, On 27 Apr 2004, at 09:43, Karl Scotland wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Another vote for a downloadable version (although a .tgz of the HTML would be just as...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Apr 27, 2004 12:04 pm
... The best example of this I can think of is the development book itself. As far as you (the customer/user) are concerned, the introduction is a...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Apr 27, 2004 12:23 pm
... Thanks, and yes, the examples are hard. It's a feature. :-) XP is about the code. There's a good book by Tom Cargill called C++ Programming Style:...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Apr 27, 2004 12:47 pm
... It was a bit of an experiment (I just finished reading the Tipping Point) to see how fast it would spread with two seeds (xpdenver and this list). If you...
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Matthew Albright
MattAlbright
Apr 27, 2004 7:10 pm
Wow, looks like there's activity here now! I'm also a newcomer to the group... someone on the san francisco perl mongers group pointed me here after I gave a...
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Greg Compestine
gmc444
Apr 27, 2004 9:32 pm
Hi Matt, I'm Greg Compestine. I had the pleasure of working with Rob in Colorado back in 2002 and 2003. I'm now in the Bay Area working for this investment...
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chudpi
Apr 28, 2004 2:08 am
... Per request, below is the list of possible minor typos or errors which I noticed while reading the book. I have not finished reading the book yet, so I...
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Lance Wicks
lwicks_2000
Apr 28, 2004 8:01 am
Hi all, My name is Lance Wicks. I am a general IT geek/nerd here in the United Kingdom (tho' originally I am from New Zealand). My involvement in Perl is...
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Forrest Chang
fkchang2000
Apr 29, 2004 12:30 am
... Hi: I was drawn to this list in that I'm a big fan of XP and Perl. Professionally, I work in a company with a strong interest/vestment in CMMI, so aside...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Apr 29, 2004 12:08 pm
... All accepted and released. Thanks muchly. FYA, most of the errors are "speakos", not typos. I used Dragon NaturallySpeaking to input most of the text. I...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Apr 30, 2004 4:12 pm
Since everybody else is doing introductions... Programming since 81. Been paid for it since 86. First used Perl in 96. Started along the agile/XP route around...
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Richard Heintze
Sieg_Heintze
May 4, 2004 5:35 pm
Someone mentioned that there was a special feature in Emacs that facilitated pair programming. I'm very familiar with emacs but I have not run across this ...
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Mark T. Dame
mtdame
May 4, 2004 5:51 pm
... I don't know about emacs, but on E-Macs (or any Mac) you can connect multiple USB keyboards for pair programming. We use this method. We connect two...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
May 5, 2004 3:34 am
... This works on PCs, too, I think. Passing the keyboard around is nice, because it maintains a single flow of control. Two mice moving one cursor gets very...
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Richard Heintze
Sieg_Heintze
May 5, 2004 9:37 pm
We are finding my desk a bit cramped and were wondering if there was any software for pair programming that would allow two different computers to...
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Greg Compestine
gmc444
May 5, 2004 10:29 pm
While simultaneous editing may sound appealing, I've found it to be more difficult to apply than one might expect. It's just too easy to end up in a battle...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
May 6, 2004 12:10 am
... [snip] I just use VNC myself. Works fine as long as you invent some cues for who's driving. If you're both on Mac OS X I'd also have a play with...
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Matthew Albright
MattAlbright
May 6, 2004 12:40 am
Don't forget the old standard, vim and screen. A couple guys here paired over the phone while both working from their houses using vim and screen... matt...
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Lance Wicks
lwicks_2000
May 6, 2004 7:35 am
Hi all, two thoughts on this, a technical one and a conceptual one. First the technical suggestion. If this a Windows environment, try Netmeeting (conf.exe)....
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Lance Wicks
lwicks_2000
May 6, 2004 7:41 am
Hi all, Doing a little more reading on pair programming and I have been trying to "sell" pair programming to some colleagues. And typically, their (and my) gut...
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Johan Lindstrom
johan__l
May 6, 2004 8:38 am
... Most people probably have done some kind of pair programming spontaneously. It's when you ask for help and someone comes over and you sit next to each ...
