From my experience, I see that people working in pairs, tend to be disturbed by the others a lot less. However there should be a very good balance between the...
Hello John, Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 11:53:08 PM, you wrote: JC> Which periodicals do you regard as important reads for Software JC> Development professionals?...
... Yes ... another thing that happens in "Flow" is that one may be concentrating well, but not being productive. We've all had that sensation of finally...
... JC>> Which periodicals do you regard as important reads for Software JC>> Development professionals? I still read and enjoy Dr Dobbs, primarily due to...
... At one point in my first job, I worked about 20 minutes cycle-ride from where we were living. Several problems had their solutions pop up on the last five...
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:09:06 +0400, Ron Jeffries ... a great answer, as always. I wonder why people tend to have too simple answers, for very complex problems:...
I read Peopleware and decided to do an analysis on the telephone interruptions a while ago. If we could cut our interruptions in half, leaving only the useful...
Heres a question for the house: what does "simplest thing that could possibly work" mean over and above just "simplest thing" ?. All it seems to do is exclude...
... Are you counting just time spent on the phone, times pay rate, in that, or also some time spent restarting the brain and such? £10,000 surprises me ......
... If it couldn't possibly work, then one might not want to start out in that direction. Kent Beck used to ask "what is the simplest thing that could possibly...
Ah, yes it would be possible to do TDD with Alloy. As far as know the ability to build specifications incrementally was explicitly designed into the language....
I didn't even count the time spent on the interruption just the time taken to get back into flow. So, It was the number of interruptions multiplied by the...
Hello Paul, Thursday, June 1, 2006, 10:35:41 AM, you wrote: PC> Heres a question for the house: what does "simplest thing that could PC> possibly work" mean...
Hello Ron, Thursday, June 1, 2006, 10:18:18 AM, you wrote: RJ> I'm with Tony on books, as well. When someone mentions a book on one RJ> of the lists or a blog,...
... There is a quote that I usually use when confronted with that: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing...
... You know, this last one actually had a nice side effect in a client's office. Inviting the "normal" people to join and help or at least give their opinion...
... I love the quote, and have it as one of my sigs. ... I don't find that to be the case. I've always been fairly good at thinking of simple ways to do...
... Yes. I don't want to go all Zen, but I'm sure I'm more productive when I'm relaxed. I need to be working, but once I sit down to do the work, the more calm...
(responding to Patrick) ... I suspect this is BDUF vs. Embrace Change in another form. We all want stability in our lives, but we want to base our lives on the...
... It was a sad day when CMP thought they needed to kill C/C++ Users Journal and then Software Development in favor of the relatively valueless CRM they...
... Pass a test by any means necessary. Clone an entire class and change one line, if that's the most expedient way. If you can't find a simple way to pass the...
... These are neat techniques and I use and recommend them all. In the present lack of context, I'd be concerned that they all seem crazy. Ron Jeffries ...
I would like to know some opinions about unit test implementations in embedded applications (mainly in C and C++). Thanks, ... No virus found in this outgoing...
You can try this article http://atomicobject.com/papers.page I know a guy at Union Switch & Signal in Pittsburgh who is trying (with varying levels of...
I can see your point very well. Some of the best ideas I had, regarding how to solve a problem, happened in weekends, holidays, walking home from work, where I...
We've installed XPlanner and are using it now, looks pretty good so far. We're using FDD (mainly) as the approach and are hoping to extend XPlanner to give the...
I posted a little while ago about project planning and tracking tools and thanks for the replies. We're trying out XPlanner at the moment but it gets a bit...
... Check out http://www.agilerules.com . Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Ron Morsicato have been doing XP with embedded code for years. Dave Rooney Mayford...
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