The March 2006 meeting of the Mid Missouri XP User Group will be held on Tuesday, March 14, 6:00 - 8:00PM, at the CARFAX office in Columbia. Pizza, salad, and...
My name is Darren Hale and I'm working for Clearent, a new startup here in St. Louis. We are going to be creating a payments processing system using XP as our...
I just joined this group, but I wanted to let everyone know that my company is looking for developers experienced in XP. Below is a brief description of our...
Hi all, My name is Mark Peck; I work with Darren Hale at Clearent and wear many hats. One of these hats will be XP Coach for our team in St Louis, so I'm glad...
Hi All, I ended up only getting two pictures of the group from the Friday night dinner at NFJS. Thanks to Curt for organizing it, I had a blast! Here's the...
Thanks, Cory. Showed it around my office here. Great dinner. Looking forward to more chances to meet well known authors. BTW, the dinner is supposed to be an...
So, does it always progress from ignorance to victory through the 4 stages in a straight line*? Not so, according to Danny O'Brian speaking at last year's...
The March meeting of the St. Louis Extreme Programming Users' Group will be held on Monday, March 20th, from 7-9PM at our usual location on Jungermann (...
Sorry I missed group. My wife was ill and I had to take care of the kids. How did it go?? I was all ready to get my book signed, too. -- Regards, John Sextro...
... Great talk by Michael. How about an API Writer's Agile Manifesto: We resolve to: #! Not only write _and_ deliver tests for each version of our library but...
Hey, I'm engaged in an intense search for .Net/C#/Agile programmers. If any of you are interested, please let me know off-list. Permanent jobs (potentially...
We are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our team at Purkinje, a St. Louis-based health care company. This is an exciting opportunity to act as...
We have openings for Java Developers that would enjoy working on a project using eXtreme Programming and Test-First development. Our team is developing...
XPStl'ers: The April meeting is just three weeks away, so mark your calendars. We would like to take a look at JUnit 4.0 during April's meeting. To do so we...
Hi all, Since you all are always trying to get us to come to St. Louis from Columbia, thought I would try to pull you all the other way. ;) This coming Monday...
... Cory, Any directions? Or a pointer to the web site? Is the meeting at: CARFAX, Inc. 2301 Maguire Blvd Columbia, MO 65201 ? If so then the GMaps url is ...
Ed, What you have is correct, *EXCEPT* where the map puts 3 and New Haven road intersecting Hwy 63, the road signs leading up to that will be "AC Exit." It's...
... Sorry Ed, I didn't realize it wasn't clear in the email (which looking back I see that it wasn't). The address you have is correct, and I see Bryan already...
I read someplace yesterday someone who uses Black Jack as a learning exercise. He gives people 2 hours and challenges them to come up with Black Jack. You...
Sounds fun. It might help to pre-build a framework to do all the shuffling, dealing, deck management, etc, so that all the students have to do is build a ...
I think if you pre-build anything it'll default the purpose of the exercise. Besides, when you have the time limitations I think you'll find different answers...
That *is* funny. Btw, we don't have anything to do with the software on the gaming devices. We (MGC) do use an independent lab that verifies the software...
... I'm teaching a "Ruby Programming" class for this first time starting Tuesday. One of the lab exercises involves cards. It can be amazingly simple. Here's...
You're just trying to get us Java programmers frustrated! ;-> OK; somewhere between 2 and 8 decks of cards. But I can see that (in Ruby!) that wouldn't be...
... Jeff, as someone else said, that takes all the learning out of it. The point of the exercise is to force you to focus on getting vertical slices of it...
... That's very cool Mark. Where's the tests? ;) Actually, ribbing aside, Ed Gibbs recently posted about this very thing. In going through the Rails book...