I have just generated the Doxygen docs for somebodies project. My gut feel when looking at the tangled #include graphs was "Gack! This is becoming a <a...
eXtremos: I just read a book on finishing your homework on time to the rugrat. Something sounded a little familiar. When doing a (timed) test, you do the easy...
I've experienced XP on a Java-based project and I thought it worked well. Now I'm working alone on a free-time project coded in PHP. It might be my way of...
... ROTFL. But seriously I wonder if there's any chance of IBM promoting Agile RUP when things settle down. Given Rational and PwC's client base, it seems like...
From: "nbsmxs" ... Time for a Mock Object; this is the classic situation. Odds are you aren't writing the wrapper layer above the hardware now. You are...
/. linked to this article [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~daven/docs/oss-wp.html] yesterday. "Design for usability really ought to take place in advance of any...
Hi, I'm writing unit tests for code that controls external devices through the serial port. The main processing loop calls my code to get the command to send...
Are there any outstanding XP project managment tools out there. I have looked at two open source products, XPlanner and WebXP but I don't have time to make...
[I was reminded by the office layout thread, Cf.] Ages back we spoke here about finding height-adjustable desks and tables, for those who wish to occasionally...
hi just read through this paper http://www.thoughtworks.com/library/Recognizing%20and%20Responding% 20to%20Bad%20Smells%20in%20Extreme%20Programming.pdf and it...
Hello I'm a biginner in XP and I don't know how can I start XP .I like to know some good friends to help and guide me ...please don't laugh at me if my...
... I'm not sure I can manage this one. Do you know how often they have misplaced my luggage? :) Joe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... AAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHH! ... Oh, it's just Dossy. No prob. ... Yeah, and our customer service is also second to none! ... Postliminary response: Very correct!...
I am currently involved in a project of designing an environment in which about 10 teams of 6 will be involved in XP projects. How would you layout (please...
Any email containing the subject "recently emailed you an e-card :" is an email virus. Please delete it. Apologies if you got one from me. - Chris [Non-text...
From: "Ian Mitchell" ... Peter Merel had the very good idea (wonder where he got it) of a big hex-shaped table, about 10 feet across, with 3 oversized flat...
Apologies to those few of you who may have already received this one, but Google only gave it 61 hits: BOMB IRAQ (To be sung to the tune of "If you're happy...
... Why do you think parameterized types are hackery? Are there any functionally equivalent alternatives? I honestly don't understand why people think that...
Hi William, As a sponsor, we certainly do get data on attendees. Pretty common. At conferences like JavaOne, the interest is better gauged by using scanners...
Read this article this morning. Has some cool agile references -- nothing new at all, but thought I'd pass it along (may have already been posted, my ...
I have seen Ron Jeffries' assessment (see http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/index.htm) of how XP matches up to the CMM framework (January 2000), as well as...
... No. The red squiggle is, I believe, a graphic. Other than making it work, copying the bits off the screen, and comparing the bits thereafter, I don't see...
I've recently been getting some spam to an address I only gave when I signed up for this year's XP Universe. Is this happening to other people? First it was...
I'm leading a team of developers, and attempting be as XPish as we can given environment/political limitations. The project is a web-based application written...
