This was in last nights SITREP from SEMA: http://www.sema.state.mo.us/Situation%20Reports.htm Sorry for having to go with images, but the PDF was locked. ...
This was in last nights SITREP from SEMA: http://www.sema.state.mo.us/Situation%20Reports.htm Sorry for having to go with images, but the PDF was locked. The...
The September meeting of the St. Louis Extreme Programming Users' Group will be held on Monday, September 19th, from 7-9PM at our usual location on Jungermann...
Hello everyone! Diaspar Software, Digital Focus and ProjectSuccess would like to announce that we are co-hosting XP Day DC 2005, a 1-day eXtreme Programming...
***AND*** at some point in the far distant future, I'll certainly learn to /follow directions/. (...and to pay close attention to email addresses -- ...
I won't be able to be there, but the topic is very interesting. Monday is my son's birthday and since I am already scheduled to be out of town at a client on...
I plan to be there tonight. Rick Frederick J Eccher Jr MBA M.S. Management of Information Systems A.B. Psychology B.A. Biology CIO, Community Partners Vice...
Hi all, In response to the "book club" idea at last night's meeting, I'd like to nominate Kerievsky's "Refactoring to Patterns." According to Amazon reviews, ...
... /0321213351/qid=1127224897/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1689764-0700826? v=glance&s=books&n=507846 I'll second the nomination. It's a good book. I have it, and...
I'd like to nominate these two: Prefactoring By Ken Pugh First Edition September 2005 ISBN: 0-596-00874-0 238 pages, $29.95 US, $41.95 CA Buy from O'Reilly: ...
... The cover description tends to sound very big-design-up-front. But perusing through the contents seems to show an approach that could be very agile....
... This one is also available on Safari Bookshelf (my favorite way to read technical books). The Prefactoring book is not. This one looks good. It has my...
CWE LUG met last Sunday. Matbe that was the one... Rick ... Frederick J Eccher Jr MBA M.S. Management of Information Systems A.B. Psychology B.A. Biology CIO,...
I should point out that CWE-LUG's new meeting date is the 3rd Saturday of every month and that the location changed as well to the Schafly library on Euclid. ...
Even more off-topic: OpenVPN and its corresponding windows-based system-tray tool OpenVPN GUI, are a god-send. It "just works" for some values of Windows-XP. ...
Ed, Thanks, I subscribed again so I should start getting better info... Rick ... Frederick J Eccher Jr MBA M.S. Management of Information Systems A.B....
... Strange. I checked at the bookstore, and the book itself has the Safari icon. And inside, it says that it is a Safari book. But I can't find it at...
I'm not an expert on Safari, but the book is brand new and I think Safari will be used after the first surge of purchases sometime in the future. Rick ... ...
... You may be right, but there are books available on Safari that were published this spring, books on Java not books with a small audience. -- Kenneth P....
Kenneth, I think we are in agreement. This Prefactoring book is new as of Setp 2005...now. In a few months==>6 months it will be on Safari. That is one of...
A blog entry on Prefactoring: http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/archive/2005/03/16/397111.aspx 'Ken defines prefactoring as "developing code that reduces the need...
Hi, Do you guys think that pair programming is more expensive than the traditional solo programming? Some managers in our company are complaining that pair...
Yes, it can appear wasteful to managers. So, it's your job to explain to them the benefits and how it's helping. First, we don't pair all the time. We pair on...