I may, or may not, be 'elite'... but I ain't no fool. I am using XP because it strengthens my assets and shores up my weaknesses. ADHD? You're partner will...
Today I was doing my engineering task with my partner. Someone at the next
desk asked, "don't you think we need to refactor the module foo?" After
quickly...
hi, In response to my last message Jeff mentioned a 'culture' that exists in the minds of many VB programmers towards towards carrying out waterfall or XP in...
Hi guys, I was just looking for quotes for my sig, and I came across this one. I thought it so germane that I decided to spend a moment posting it. If a lot of...
From: "jeffgrigg63132" <jgrigg@...> ... The scarier thing is that there are people who don't mind not being able to build their project from sources. (I'm...
hi, In response to my last message Jeff mentioned a 'culture' that exists in the minds of many VB programmers towards towards carrying out waterfall or XP in...
I'm currently participating in an XP project in a role I never envisioned - as the Customer - and thought I would share the story to see if this is happening...
... And if he's reading this, or if anyone else trying to apply XP in the embedded area is reading this, I'd be very interested in some on- or offline...
A wandering programmer chanced upon an Extreme Programmer while traveling. The wanderer chose to speak first, "Teach me this XP stuff, I want to see what all...
Hi guys, I just want to verify something I was told today, and you guys can help by answering a simple question: I need a class that represents a triangle, and...
... What an amazing idea - children are _people_? :-) My wife and I took a similar approach with our children (now 6 & 8 years old - yikes!). The tough part...
"C. Keith Ray" <ckeithray@...> wrote: [BTW, can you tell I'm catching up in the list? Only 8 digests to go...] ... [forbidden] ... [discouraged] ... I'd...
Spurred on by the wonder and beauty of MacOS X, I find I'm currently subscribed to quite a few of the Apple developers' mailing lists. At the moment I am...
I've just found an amazing article at http://www.fastcompany.com/online/28/ge.html, it's not a new article ('99), but I haven't seen it mentioned around here...
Thanks, I'm glad to have helped. I think it's a common source of confusion, and all too frequently leads people to do bad things like tie their business...
OK, here's my understanding of MVC, and the way I typically use it. In the original Smalltalk sense (as I understand it, not having had any direct personal...
From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:jim.hyslop@...] ... Header files hurt. Having to rename/create a function in two places is always error prone. The fact that a...
... Somehow the idea of "Sustainable Pace" seems to be missing. Sadly I don't have an idea about how to integrate it into the poster. Kind Regards, Ilja ...
Over the weekend I wrote XPath Explorer, a Swing app to help visualize the results of an XPath expression. It's in development, so don't expect much, but its...
Hello Could anyone help me by explaining a little about type checking and run-time error handling and what effect they would have on deciding whether to adopt...
... Not if the C++ code is well-written to begin with. My primary programming language is C++, and I have had no trouble refactoring my classes and functions....
How do you change pairs promiscously with only two programmers on the team? Isn't it the case that a team of two has some of the same problems as XP for 1,...
http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/logic_task.htm Not exactly XP related but the description you receive upon completion of the test really makes me think...
I'm in a small Pair Programming team: 2 people. Me and my partner. Now, I am about to go on vacation for a week. My partner goes on a 3 week vacation in June. ...
... [...] ... I didn't know that was the name for it, but this characteristic is something Python programmers value very highly as well. Since the language is...
Smalltalk Solutions 2002 is rapidly approaching, and we have a great technical program this year - visit http://www.gosmalltalk.com/speakers.php for all the...
