... On a project with legacy code, wouldn't "refactoring ideolog" be a useful role? Bad code is typically stereotypically bad, with a number of specific...
My experience has been that most of the time when I have really been tempted to write a comment in the code, there's a way to extract a well named method that...
... Has anyone noticed that Doug Rosenberg & Matt Stephens are now touting "Agile Development with ICONIX Process"? From an article at java.about.com ...
I have not yet had the chance to read it (has anybody here read it yet?), but I get the impression that their process involves more up front design and...
I've been researching how personality affects pair programming and have found the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to be helpful. Most developers are of a...
Hi Extreme Programming group members, We are proud to announce the first event of the IASA's Toronto Chapter. Please join us in welcoming Scott Cairney ...
Marco, It's a fascinating question. Maybe we could look for "real world" examples of how people use the phrase. :) Here's a real quote: XP suffers from [...]...
Marco, The most generous interpretation I can come up for the use of that phrase - which, after a quick search through my outbox archives, I must confess I...
I'm reminded of a quote from Ghandi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." BJ ... I think of these as a...
... Mark Collins-Cope was around here recently, announcing the book. We lead him to ask the standard FAQs about emergent design. He received our latest version...
... Could you say more about this particular situation? Certainly, sometimes I've said, "If only we had build more infrastructure up front!" However, with the...
... Nope. A Visual Basic project will only run if all classes can be compiled. That is why I see a non-compiling test as a missing piece of code, not as a...
... How do you take all these project failures to a job interview? Do you say, honestly, why you feel each one was a failure, and you were just a victim of...
... I'll hop in here, if Friedrich doesn't mind. We work together, and so have both experienced this. I won't get into details of the domain or specifics, I...
... So? I don't understand this. Ultimately, software is not about hippies and free-love... it's about making some moola. Aren't all you guys out there making...
... They are all _technical_ successes. Everyone knows .DOT com bosses are full of crap. Also, some aren't business failures, they are simply insufficiently ...
... Okay, I'l pretend this is an interview. (Meaning I won't scream "mind your own business!";) ... For a couple of them, I did not bail when the warning signs...
Aren't the up-front tests all the infrastructure one needs? Later... ... BSc(Math) UNBF'83 Sapere Aude | APL: If you can say it, it's done.. Natural Born...
... Not necessarily true. Older versions of VB would quite happily let you run non-compiling code (and quite happily blow up if you tried to run the code in...
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... Got it. Just to make myself more clear, I think I was mainly looking for the specifics. I agree that doing more speculative work was one way that you folks...
... At least sometimes the customer IS king even in this kind of situation that you have described. Yes, the product is more expensive than it had to be...
William, I think that Chris has tried to explain our thinking here - I can go a bit more into specific details. Or domain is in the area of scientific data...
... I don't agree with this. Nor do I agree that .... The customer (king)is the one that provides the money and therefore ... ...because this puts the...
Hi Curtis, ... Well, I try always to assume that people are trying to be helpful (to someone). (I'd appreciate it if more people did that, especially to me,...
... Well, sure ... but I think most of us made dough before XP and could do so just fine had it not happened. Let's talk about me. I don't get paid for the...
... I assume you have "Death March" by Ed Yourdon in your hand. If not go get it now. I have been fairly lucky by industry standards, but some of that luck was...
Greetings Friedrich, ... My apologies for use of the term. I'll gladly use another term if someone can suggest a good one. Agreed, refactoring needs to be...
