Hi, I wonder where I can find on netobjectives.com website the index of all the streamzines. I remember I used to watch them but I am not able to find them...
Just a quick update - I've decided to go with Sahi http://www.sahi.co.inwhich is an opensource web testing tool (like selenium but a lot easier & less...
Greetings, We have recently adopted agile in our small startup company with 7 members. We are totally into manual testing and have no prior experience. Now I ...
Wed, Aug 12 - Wed, Sep 16 '09 (6 sessions) What are the Essential Skills that every developer should have? As an industry, we have not established a basic set...
Tue, Aug 11 - Tue, Sep 22 '09 (6 live sessions) Agility has allowed development teams to simultaneously reduce cost, increase the rate at which value is...
Hi leanprogramming@yahoogroups.com, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can...
Hello, I'm reading Design Patterns Explained and looking over the Java Code Fragments 4-1 and 4-2 they both refer to an object called "V1" but I think you mean...
At Net Objectives we want to increase exposure to the value of Lean and Lean-Agile. One way we're doing this is the exceptionally low cost of some upcoming...
(i asked this on the Kanban list; Alan suggested posting here, thanks!) what do we need to do to make sure folks who inherit the code for whatever reason can...
hi, I am currently under the belief that while "tell don't ask" is a great rule of thumb for doing OO, it is not possible to do that all the way throughout the...
Hello group, I'm a mac developer and I've been developing applications for about a year. I always design my applications using the OOP principles and I always...
Hi Everyone, I'd like to announce that, coming mid-April, I will be conducting an online course on the subject of database Agility through Net Objectives, Inc....
A few years back now (2003?), I took the Net Objectives introductory and advanced design patterns courses. There were slides for qualities that made for...
I'm trying to nudge our devs in some good directions (with considerable success), but we've run into a syntactic problem. We have a situation involving some...
Just wondering why the example code in 2 & 3 does not show "lock(object)"? It just shows a comment "obtain lock here" and "release lock here". The example...
Al (Shalloway) has suggested a new pattern for the repository. I think it might be interesting to get some views from this group, especially to determine if...
i asked once before about yagni and a response was, if i paraphrase it correctly, that it doesn't mean you hack whatever is most obvious and then refactor...
another vague question, i'm pondering today: how do you manage / balance making abstractions which represent the domain, vs. ones which are more about the...
hi, on the one hand, you might want to only have one implementation of any given feature across all products which have that feature. on the other hand, you...
Hi, After speaking with many attendees (usually in the bar at the end of the day) at Conferences such as Agile 2008 etc I was surprised to hear from a lot of...
http://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/christmas-tree-lights-analogy A (hopefully) enjoyable tie in to the holidays, all about code qualities... -Scott-...
I assume many, if not all the subscribers in this group have heard of NetObjectives Scrum# methodology. Although they are not the only organization to notice...
when is using uint a premature optimization that flys in the face of keeping things unconstrained and unfettered so you can easily re-use/re-work the system as...
while this is perhaps slightly getting OT, i trust that folks here are smart and experienced wrt real world development, and furthermore that they try to do a...
hi, today i was thinking that one succinct definition of simplicity i like is, "simplicity of semantics for humans". say you could have one code thing do...
(related to, but not directly about the TDD thread; a more 'generally speaking' question here) to come up with a really robust system, you have to cover all...
hi, ok this is an evil misleading stupid prone to confabulate type question. but still, i'm curious, and i think sometimes an exercise like this can help us...