... Yes, we are moving the meeting to the third Monday of the month. The topic of this month is "Extreme Refactoring". Just how far can you go with a design if...
... I haven't had the reams of hours necessary to follow that thread :) I wanted to go over some of the cool refactorings I found when I was doing my blog...
I just signed up to teach a class, so I'm swamped all of this month. I'll have to consider it for next month, or maybe the month after. Ron Jeffries has...
... I was so disappointed to see that thread reemerge as a rehash of all the same points as before, that I didn't bother to participate this time. However, if...
Haven't we all? ;-> Given that a procedural approach gives a better solution than an Object Oriented Design when scoring simple bowling games, then there must...
Please count me in. Brian Button <bbutton@...> wrote: This month, the St. Louis Extreme Programming User Group is meeting on Monday, January 17th from...
Count me in, this will be my first meeting with the group. After seeing Brian present at the C# meeting, I am very interested in watching him in action. It...
This is the CFP for the merged Agile Development Conference (ADC) and XP Agile Universe (XPAU) conference: Call for Participation - Agile 2005 July 24-29,...
Yes, we are, Jeff. I'll be announcing it today. Mike Shoemaker is going to regale us with his tails of using Ruby on Rails in an agile way. I, for one, cannot...
Oops, possible correction. I have two speakers lined up, and I may have gotten them confused. I'll post the real announcement later today. Sorry for the...
I'm setting up a Java development environment for some high schools students and was just wondering what would be a good environment for them in which to learn...
Eclipse. No question. Netbeans may be a better choice if you are doing J2ME development because of its integration with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit. Other than...
NetBeans seems to have the advantage, at the moment, for Java 1.5 / J2SE 5.0 support. But that advantage won't last: Eclipse 3.1 will address this issue. ...
The February meeting of the St. Louis Extreme Programming Users' Group will be held on Monday, February 21st, from 7-9PM at our usual location on Jungermann ...
FYI: And if you miss this talk, Curt Hibbs of OCI will be doing a Ruby on Rails talk at the Saint Louis Java User Group on June 9th. This XPSTL talk looks...
... I agree. Personally, I think a simpler language, like some lisp-variant, would be ideal, but that's another thread. The reason I'm looking at Java and...