In the July 2000 issue of Software Development - they have an article on Design by Contract in Java. I've not read much about DbC prior to this article - but...
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William Tozier
bill@...
Jun 2, 2000 12:54 pm
... Sorry -- we have just the opposite reaction here. Mail filters don't work for newsgroups, so you need to eke signal from the noise every time you visit....
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 2, 2000 12:56 pm
... no, not that I know of. ... That's what I'd expect. C3 scanned the cards for a while. Never looked at the scans. After a while they optimized the process. ...
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Russell Gold
russgold@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:04 pm
XP appears to have no particular role for "specialists" often found on projects - so what do you do with these people? For example, if we have a number of...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:15 pm
... Please explain for each a bit about what they do now. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com...
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Alan Francis
alanf@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:15 pm
... Cool. Are you comics fan, a Gaiman fan, or just trying it out ? AlanFrancis (a comics fan, and a Gaiman fan :-)...
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Alan Francis
alanf@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:19 pm
... would be. I was *so* disappointed in the K&P book. Despiote their claims of multi-language coverage, it was really a C book. Imagine my surprise when I...
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Phlip
phlip@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:22 pm
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Alan Francis
alanf@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:25 pm
... Get Big Fast : The Story of Amazon Sex Tips for Girls - Cynthia Heimel (thanks Kent) Principles of Scientific Management - FW Taylor (thanks again, Kent) ...
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Joshua Macy/Towers Pe...
macyj@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:27 pm
I liked The Pragmatic Programmer better than The Practice of Programming, but I thought the latter had a lot of keen insight as well. One of my favorite...
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Phlip
phlip@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:30 pm
From: <larocha@...> ... So you own the XP franchise on tens of thousands of square miles. The possibilities are endless! ... What framework? Read this: ...
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Eric Rizzo
eric.rizzo@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:32 pm
... Not necessarily true. You can set it up at install so that you have a local repository in addition to the server one, and switch to it at any time....
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Frank Gerhardt
fg@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:36 pm
... From: Till =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCmmer?= schuemme@... Sent: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 11:41:43 +0200 To: extremeprogramming@egroups.com ...
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Phlip
phlip@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:36 pm
... The World According to Garp... Rabbit is Rich... The Hotel New Hampshire... Beauty's Punishment... Bag of Bones... NOT Phlip =======...
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Eric Rizzo
eric.rizzo@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:47 pm
... [snip] ... I'd like to, but unfortunately our news feed (from UUNet, IIRC) has yet to make the newsgroup available to us. or so I'm told by our...
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Susan Johnson
susan.johnson@...
Jun 2, 2000 2:24 pm
The newsgroup isn't available to me, either. ... unfortunately our news feed (from UUNet, IIRC) has yet to make the newsgroup available to us. or so I'm told...
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Dave Thomas
Dave@...
Jun 2, 2000 2:26 pm
"Morris, Chris" <chrism@...> writes: [I swapped the order of these two paragraphs for dramatic effect-dt] ... The example shown was for iContract,...
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DAVID LUCAS
dlucas@...
Jun 2, 2000 2:28 pm
I will be out of the office until June 12, 2000. If this is urgent, please contact Kevin Dunlap. Thank you, Dave ... To Post a message, send it to:...
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Richard Keene
r.keene@...
Jun 2, 2000 2:56 pm
We use a big white board for our user stories. It is where all can see it and make notes and such....
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Morris, Chris
chrism@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:08 pm
... The article was confusing because it started with a simple formalism and ended up with lots of magic. I didn't follow the transition. Thanks for your input...
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Martijn Meijering
martijn@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:26 pm
... If you find CppUnit intimidating, you can start with something much simpler. In fact you can start with nothing at all (just if's and cout's) and refactor...
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shought1@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:31 pm
... I just tried to port CppUnit to Linix (RedHat 6.1) last night and I got it to build, but it's crashing at runtime. The very first time an "assert()" fails...
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Martijn Meijering
martijn@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:36 pm
... I loved K&P. I guess PP must be even better. Wow. Time to go to my local book store. Martijn...
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shought1@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:40 pm
... Update: I just read that gcc exceptions are enabled with -fexceptions, but they are on by default and the crash still happens. I have been reading the g++...
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Jim Weirich
jweirich@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:21 pm
... Here are some references on DbC ... http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/contract/page.html -- Paper by Meyer on DbC. Good starting point. ...
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Kent Quirk
kent_quirk@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:27 pm
... Failure Is Not An Option, by Gene Krantz (former flight director of NASA - talk about a NON-XP work environment!) Python Essential Reference, David M...
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Anderson, William L
WAnderson@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:39 pm
Frederick Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency, by Robert Kanigel: for a historical perspective on Taylor, his work, and it's far reaching effects. As a...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:49 pm
... Then of course you have read, or should, David Brin, The Transparent Society (non-fiction). Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com...
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Anderson, William L
WAnderson@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:49 pm
Jeff, I appreciate your comments regarding understanding customer requirements. But I have a few comments on your view that meetings with customers are...
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Russel Hill
russh@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:50 pm
From an external point of view an interface may seem quite simple. Consider adding a node to a list doubly linked list. The list may be empty, you might be...
