... It's not like we are talking about something big. Last summer, I bootstrapped an xUnit in an hour when I realized I didn't have one on my laptop during ...
Hi, Did anyone else notice the news that Dijkstra died earlier this month? Shame, we could have used brains like his in the agile movement. I just found out...
Hi, ... This is why we call it Extreme ... It did come across a bit strong, but I do believe that there is some truth in it. Of course, I may have not made the...
... so we've actually been working on a swing based gui testing tool. It's open source and loosely based on a couple tools I've written for previous projects....
Hi all, I'm looking for information about open workspace, primarily articles. -- Best regards, Jonas Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. -...
... It has attracted an answer. At least, I've seen answers several times - on the newsgroup. Robert Martin's answer is to write your own tool for each...
Just a quick reminder (to those of you I haven't already bugged about this): Software Education's first annual Agile Developers Conference Wellington, NZ: 9-10...
Hi Jonas, ... You may be interested in a counter argument from DeMarco and Lister. www.chrisfoxinc.com/OfficeEnvironmentAndProductivity.htm Cheers, Bryan...
Hi, I've just found a good, concise paper on metal models and metaphor. www.chrisfoxinc.com/mentalModels.htm#Metaphor I've also checked out some of the other...
... Ron, Yes, this was interesting. It would also be interesting with articles more focused on describing how open workspace influence communication, team...
From: "Ron Jeffries" <ronjeffries@...> ... see it ... note I ... I have some ideas on why people look for (and produce) software for tracking XP story...
... [egb> ] We were creating things that simply did not exist - there were no Ada compilers at the time (we wrote the first commercial one). We reused tools...
... [egb> ] To say that the "software crisis" (a term I do not buy into...for something that has gone on this long, it's no longer a crisis...) is due to a...
... [egb> ] I'm saying that to assume you'll write your own tools - or to assume that you'll buy tools - is a poor assumption either way...it should be an ...
... [egb> ] be careful in warping the time dimension..you are speaking of sweeping tides of change that rise and fall over times of decades; we've primarily...
... Thanks Kyle. I think you are right on the money. I was just in the process of writing a reply about how I get confused about what XP is exactly and how ...
Pierre Boudreau
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Sep 1, 2002 3:48 pm
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... I think XP is trying to do more than what it first set out to do. I had only heard about XP a few months before this year's XPU. When I got there, I...
Pierre Boudreau
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Hi Grady, ... I do agree that things aren't quite as simple as I painted them. The current state of affairs was created by more than a misperception on the ...
Hi, Ron, Grady, Dossy, Wow. Thanks for just the information I've been looking for. I'm starting (any day now) my little bookstore app for my Customer... and ...
... It was Dan Palanza who said that, I pretty much agree with it. I think the reason you misattributed him is because I self-quoted and didn't quote Dan... ...
... Personally, I don't find this contradictory. In a team environment, I don't mind nearby chatter about the project; it keeps me informed about what's going...
William Pietri
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Sep 1, 2002 5:27 pm
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... I'd point my tests to a different data store, a test one. See how the tests in the XMLNotepad create a new notepad, load it, execute a command on it, and...
... I don't think there *is* such a thing as "the RUP requirements phase". The initial phase of RUP is called "Inception". It is composed of a batch of ...