In article <39327D95.2BCCB538@...>, Alain Kreienbuhl <alain.kreienbuhl@...> writes ... I expect the gurus (I'm not one) will slam fixed price...
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Ian Hobson
ian.hobson@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:12 am
In article <001001bfcb05$68baa280$0100a8c0@...>, Don Wells <don@...> writes ... As your using last iterations actuals...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:42 am
... I have two pieces of good news. First of all, there is cppUnit. (yay!) Check http://www.xprogramming.com/software.htm. Second, the author of cppUnit is...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:44 am
... As far as I know, no one has experience yet with this. Others may chime in and prove me ignorant, which in this case would be fine. In any case, the above...
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Alan Francis
alanf@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:49 am
... for is a ... even given. How about "Only bite off as much as you could chew (of the last bite)". --AlanFrancis...
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Simon Smith
simon@...
Jun 1, 2000 11:13 am
... Check out Ken Auer's company, RoleModel Software: http://www.rolemodelsoft.com/DoingBusiness.htm Look at Deliverables-Based pricing; this looks to be fixed...
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Morris, Chris
chrism@...
Jun 1, 2000 12:30 pm
... I do this. In the first place, our key fields are strings, with a custom ID generator (compared to, IME, more traditional integer incrementing IDs), which...
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Phlip
phlip@...
Jun 1, 2000 12:35 pm
From: sharanya vemu ... go thru the mails.,, i dont get much.,, can some one help me out with this.,?? Here's a chart comparing XP to the way people who think...
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Morris, Chris
chrism@...
Jun 1, 2000 12:41 pm
... This is a great "punch to the gut" of XP, IMO. Since you work together, you get the maximum, not the average. When you work apart, you get the average, not...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 1, 2000 12:48 pm
... That Jeffries, he's somethin when you put him in the hands of a great editor. ;-> Nice phrasing! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com...
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Marco Dorantes
marcodorantes@...
Jun 1, 2000 2:06 pm
get CppUnit testing framework for MS Visual C++ from: http://www.xprogramming.com/software.htm or CppUnit port to Borland C++Builder 3.0 Pro from the "Files"...
... Proves my point. ;-> Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com...
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Gareth Reeves
reevesy@...
Jun 1, 2000 3:34 pm
Hey Does anybody have recommendations/experiences for team source code control using Visual Age for Java professional edition? Gareth ... 'Sufficient to the...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:03 pm
... I assume you mean how to use the built-in source code control that's already there ... here are a few things that come to mind, translated from the...
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Chris Collins
ccollins@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:19 pm
I agree with everything Ron said except the ID per programmer. The biggest problem I ran into with Visual Age source code control was trying to version code I...
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Gareth Reeves
reevesy@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:31 pm
Thanks for the good info Ron, and I think that would work with the Enterprise edition of VAJ. But my understanding is (and please someone correct me if I am...
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Tonus, Valerie
valerie.tonus@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:34 pm
What about the ne plus ultra rule? [Latin n pls ultr, (go) no more beyond (this point): n, no + pls, more + ultr, , beyond.] Everyone loves Latin, right? ... ...
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Marco Dorantes
marcodorantes@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:42 pm
What are you reading guys? I used to read books and articles with the purpose of improve my day to day software skills, nowadays Refactoring by Martin Fowler,...
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Kent Beck
kentbeck@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:52 pm
"Can the extra cost be justified by the built in SCM?" Yes. It's fast, robust, and integrated with the IDE. Might you ever lose a day tracking down problems...
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Phlip
phlip@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:53 pm
From: Marco Dorantes ... Bruno The Bandit! http://www.brunothebandit.com/ Phlip ======= http://users.deltanet.com/~tegan/home.html =======...
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Keith Paton
paton@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:13 pm
Safer C by Les Hatton Code Complete by Steve McConnell C Traps and Pitfalls by Andrew Koenig ... From: "Marco Dorantes" <marcodorantes@...> To:...
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Gareth Reeves
reevesy@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:18 pm
... That answers my question, thanks. Gareth...
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Marko Gargenta
mgargent@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:18 pm
Here is my recommended list at the bottom of this page: http://www.gargenta.com/marko/startups/book_list.html Marko...
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Webber, Paul
pwebber@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:22 pm
I agree with Kent. But at my company I still have to "check in" code to CVS. This is where the tool vaj2cvs came in handy, by Kevin J. Grittner see ...
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Marko Gargenta
mgargent@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:23 pm
I personally use CVS for source control. What is your opinion on CVS's optimistic locking versus systems such as MS VisualSafe? Marko Gargenta...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:26 pm
... The complete Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. People Skills, by Robert Bolton, not that I need it. The Apocalypse Troll, by David Weber. Ron Jeffries ...
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Gareth Reeves
reevesy@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:28 pm
... I am currently reading 'Innovators Dilemma' again and trying to work out if XP is a backhoe. But like Marco, I am reading less software/programming books &...
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Kent Beck
kentbeck@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:39 pm
"There aren't many books out there which tell you how to do the simplest thing possible." Perhaps, Gareth, you need to write one. The rest of you, too. Kent...
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Joshua Macy/Towers Pe...
macyj@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:40 pm
The Pragmatic Programmer, Hunt & Thomas The Practice of Programming, Kernighan & Pike The Inmates are Running the Asylum, Cooper Python Programming on Win32,...
