Someone who has been attempting to introduce XP in an organization has been writing http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChangeYourOrganizationDiary I found it pretty...
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Hi guys. I haven't been on any XP project yet (sure I won't loose an opportunity if there is one around in Adelaide). Having worked with a waterfall model for ...
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Hi George, I'm guessing this will get a few replies... Check out www.xprogramming.org and www.extremeprogramming.org The main difference I see between between...
Hi Chris, Thank you for the reply. By saying software architecture I was meaning something that solves some technical issues for programmer and lets one...
Hi All, Thanks again to Murray & AC Nielsen for tonights venue & catering. For those of you at tonight's meeting, the paper about test driven database design ...
Hi George, We had a meeting last night and I mentioned your email at one stage. Design Up Front? ================ One of the interesting points of view that...
Hi George, ... Recently, the projects I've been doing have been changes to systems years old, without automated tests, and I've tended to leave the overall...
A pretty good description Murray :-) I think having a software architecture is a good thing for a software project of any reasonable size. It can serve as a...
... Nothing worse than being constrained by an architecture that doesn't end up fitting as well as you thought it might. Not to say that putting some ...
Hi Glen. Sorry for thinking not from XP point of view, it doesn't mean I have something against it. Having an architecture you may consider as having ...
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[snip ... I'd be happy to change the programming language used for a project if it made sense to do so......
George, I think slightly differently here. I agree the language defines what I can & cannot express in my implementation. Idiom is how I use the language, and...
Interesting analogy. 1) I didn't pay for the development of the language, or the compilers, or the debuggers that came with it. So you might want to offer me a...
I think Glenn's point was that "architectures" tend to be more constraining than programming languages. A colleague of mine once said "a good framework also...
Ah, the "A" word....I wonder what it means? I hate it.... George - care to have a stab at what you mean without using the word "architecture"? I'm sincerely...
... Easy - its just a way for people to ask for more money when applying for a job. Unforunately though, everyone now claims to be an architect and the market ...
Folks, A little bit of news on the user group front. Although MXPEG was never specifically targetted at developers, it has tended to focus on the technical...
VTR Consulting would like to invite you to the 3rd Australian IT User Groups Open Day. The idea behind the organisation of the Open Day, a non-commercial ...
Removing duplication and having decoupling in persistence functionality is a good thing. I'm not sure how that leads to "access to db done before everything...
Hi Marty, ... Aha! So that's something I could try to have a chance of the more money that I want. ... Maybe "Emergent Architect" would still have a cachet? No...
Thank you Steve and all others. You answered all my questions. Sorry, the word "architecture" may not be the most appropriate to describe a framework that...
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Thanks to everyone who attended on Wednesday night, to Murray for providing a venue, and for A.C. Neilsen for sponsoring refreshments. I think the format...