Hi All I've been working a couple of months on a project, and I admit -- I have no unit tests. At all. (Don't shoot me -- yet -- though) Needless to say, I...
When: The Washington, DC-Area XP Users Group will be having our June meeting on Monday the 10th, at 7:00 PM. (Meetings are held on the second Monday of every...
This may be completely off-topic, but I have to speak up while I have a chance. Alan, your book amazing. It was a great introduction and I recommend it to...
This is really a comp.lang.c++ question, but someone on the XP list may know an answer. Frequently, I find myself wanting to write tests that look like ...
It's a very cool book. The original edition was a sort of bible next to the GoF book at the first services company I worked for (circa 1998). It's more than...
Andy Glew wrote ... Ken Auer has a lot about apprenticeship on his website. http://www.rolemodelsoftware.com/apprenticeship/index.htm Ken also organized a...
We are looking for input on next year's Smalltalk Solutions Conference. We would like to get information out <much> earlier than we did last year - and your...
Myself and the other developer I work with occasionally pair, but mostly work on separate projects on our own dev machines (we each have 2). We're pretty...
... Forget SoloXP... well not really. But first, what's this about an "apprentice". Dave: care to talk about the concept of "apprentice" in software craft? ......
v.4 has additional book recommendations, minor changes ... XP minifaq: <http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/xpminifaq.html> Extreme Programming (XP) is a set of...
... I assumed it was derived from the "keyboard wedge", some kind of small device that lets other devices (like barcode readers) "hitchhike" on the keyboard...
... I tend to use a map, from string to void*. But then I have to do static_cast<logger_c*> ( ctx.get("log") ).Trace(" ... Ugly. With judicious use of macros...
Hi, Everybody, My PM just sent this quote to everybody on the "team": <quote> In today's economy, corporate leaders are looking for individuals with strong...
Hi Laurent, ... Sure - a web server? Database Transaction Logs? Uh, and where are we going with this? I really can't remember anymore why we look for non-debug...
Anyone out there using XP in a .NET site? We¹re using nunit and nant with some success. I¹m writing a book for SAMS about XP and the .net thingy seems a bit...
Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Agile Processes (EEAP 2002) http://sern.ucalgary.ca/eeap/ Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 7, 2002, Marriott Lincolnshire ...
Several of you on this thread sent me private email asking me to let you know when an updated draft was published of the "SCM Patterns" book I'm co-authoring...
... The term "factoring", as in "let's factor out the common code into a routine and call that" was in common use at Gould CSD circa 1986 (Berkeley UNIX...
... Urgh... I have seen this post many times, and I hope that you all realize: (1) Many compilers have warnings for fairly obvious cases of potentially...
... That's Bob Martin, to you ron. And I'm worth at least three times that. ... Robert C. Martin | President & Founder | Object Mentor Inc. | unclebob @...
I often have trouble with words. I have more trouble with some words than with others. I've written a glossary of words with which I have had lots of...
I used to avoid companies that were trying to implement RUP. Typically the mandate came from above. I've had developers come to my patterns courses saying...
... Hmm. I only toyed with VB for a very short time, but I do recall some odd things (we used ClearCase). It was something like having to check out the project...
Let me pose this question to the group: Is the emergence of several different agile methodologies/processes good or bad for the industry? For example, before...
I have noticed something in an "XP" project I am on. At the iteration planning meeting we end up spending a fairly long time for stories (roughly = 1 day to 1 ...
