Hi all, If you are in Sydney Australia, join us at Sydney's XP Activities Club for a presentation of the XP Game. When? Monday 6th June 2005, starting at...
Hello Jeff, Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 3:59:14 AM, you wrote: JG> This seemed like an interesting diversion, so I gave it a shot this JG> evening: Oh my deity,...
Hello Jeff, Okay, here's my Perl solution to the problem. I've tweaked the layout in the hope that it'll be more email friendly. You'll see the duplication...
... Is it only me and my spell checker that spells 40 "forty"? I'll have a go at the exercise later, and post my code. Anthony -- Anthony Williams Software...
Call for Participation The Music of Agile Software Development Karl Scotland David Putman Value Proposition ================= A significant number of members...
... My *EVIL Twin* did it. ;-> ... Actually, I just realized this morning that "fourty" is wrong; I need to learn to spell. :-O But it handles fifty and all...
... Would it be worth splitting it so that the "main" code produces the uniform answers, and there's a final "produce idiomatic" map which turns eg "fourty" to...
... Code, as promised (C++) follows below. Tony's original duplication is now reduced to the "useAnd" boolean in the numberAsString function. I thought about...
... Actually, I decided that the duplication between SimpleLabelFinder and TensLabelFinder was worth eliminating, which yielded LookupLabelFinder: struct...
... Oops! Sorry. ... I've extracted a method from a test, then applied the extraction to a similar chunk in another test, but missed out one of the parameters...
There was a post that suggested many agile adopters have a music background. Could this be true? I was in the school band. I played Coronet for several years...
... I'm a huge fan of Agile/XP and yet my artistic skills are worst than the original gave dwellers - you can at least tell they have drawn Animals on the...
... No, that's good! You've come up with a counterexample to my simplistic claim. I'm delighted to be found out and educated in this way. ... Sounds like a...
If we were to convert from english to numbers, we should, for example, accept both thirteen hundred and one thousand three hundred as valid inputs and convert...
... Early in school, I showed a simply amazing talent at the recorder. (Amazingly good, in my opinion at the time, amazingly bad to the ears of most others!...
Let's say your customer tells you there's an additional requirement. Your code must also support representing numbers as German words. Although this is a...
I'm preparing a research about security processes at the different IS development methodologies. Does XP has any guideline to handle the security side of the ...
Stanley Jordan (http://www.stanleyjordan.com/) uses APL, which is as agile as it gets. Later... ... BSc(Math) UNBF'83 Sapere Aude | APL: If you can say it,...
... Interesting question. I wouldn't bias the design in anticipation of that requirement, but I'd guess we might, upon receiving the next one, work like this: ...
Last year I worked as a medieval wood- and boneworker in an archealogical themepark. Great switch for a programmer! It is not fully blown art, but, as...
... http://www.smartphrase.com/German/ge_numbers_voc.shtml ... It wouldn't be a big problem in this case to rewrite all the code since it's a relatively small...
Hi everyone, This message is an invitation to attend our workshop "The Coder's Dojo : A different way to teach coding skills" on Sunday 6/19 during the XP2005...
... XP is a 'Pull' process which means we only implement what the customer wants implemented. If the customer has requirements dealing with security, then we...
... Would you write the German version using the same basic technique as the English version? If so, wouldn't you effectively be rewriting the program twice...
... But rewriting an entire application in order to internationalize it seems extremely unlikely, especially if it has any reasonable design structure at all,...