Has anyone tried out the Design Patterns cards they also have listed? Looks interesting, thanks for the link. Michael Ben-David Lead Architect, Applications at...
4th International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering - XP2003 Week of May 26, 2003, Genova, Italy www.xp2003.org ...
Matteo Canessa
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Mar 11, 2003 1:04 pm
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XP/Agile Toronto March meeting Tuesday March 18, 2003 7:00pm-9:00pm Location: Exchange Solutions 250 Yonge Street, 18th Floor The entrance for the elevators is...
O'Reilly has released the following book: "Java Extreme Programming Cookbook" The following blurb is from the publisher: Java Extreme Programming Cookbook --...
Are there any good ones besides the Addison Wesley ones? :-) Seriously though, I usually go by the author - Scott Ambler's books are great (published by Wiley...
... That used to be true but their quality has dropped significantly in the last couple of years. One of their senior editors passed away about the time the...
For those of you who are interested, Mike and I meet for dinner prior to our monthly meetings. You are all welcome to join us for our annual dining event held...
... Well, I'm going to recommend "The Goal" and "Critical Chain" by Eliyahu Goldratt :-) Here's what the highly opinionated Joel Spolsky had to say about them:...
Hey Derek, How are things going over there? I am back at TD for the spring at least. Drew ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business...
... The only time I have found consistent good authorship is in Science Fiction and Horror novels. Although some authors will have a better writing style, far...
Thanks to everyone who attended last night's presentation. The discussion was really, really good and I'm glad I had a chance to exchange views on software...
At the "Critical Chain" presentation a number of people asked about negotiating estimates with management and modelling project risk. There have been a number...
As Bryan mentioned at the last meeting, we are looking for speakers for this season. We're fairly open with respect to topics so long as they somehow relate...
iCanProgram has just announced a new course in their Linux Programming series called: Extreme Linux Programming. This course aims to show that you can write...
Robert Findlay
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Mar 25, 2003 10:21 pm
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I didn't know that XP required OOP programming concepts or that Linux could not use them. The 12 XP core practices have nothing to do with Object-oriented...
... <curmudgeon mode="on"> If anything, I'd say XP is easier without extensive OOP. Oh sure, it's handy to encapsulate data with behaviour, and classes are a...
... <curmudgeon mode="on"> If anything, I'd say XP is easier without extensive OOP. Oh sure, it's handy to encapsulate data with behaviour, and classes are a...
Bryan, You are correct in that the practices don't have any bias towards a particular language or technology. But I think that a lot of people look at the...
It is not my perception that XP requires OO. In fact, I recently heard from a friend that, because of a client restriction, had to develop a JUnit-like tool in...
I find Bryan's question quite interesting since I see OO programming and XP to be quite related and supplementing each other, but I would not phrase the...
... Refactoring is language-independent. Languages do not restrict you from refactoring code. Well, at least none of the languages I've used or am familiar...
As to your point about refactoring, Jim, you are absolutely right that it is only one of many practices XP encourages. When I referred to refactoring in C in...
I won't comment point to point but I find the comment that a methodology directs the language somewhat scary (no offense meant). There is nothing (IMHO) in XP...
Some interesting books to look at: Facts and Fallacies of Software Development (fun book) Building J2EE Applications with RUP (Takes a very agile approach) ...
... Okay, I can't sit on the sidelines any longer. I suggest you will have better results when doing it in a more powerful language. 00 is just one way to be...
Approach to programming and programming language should be orthogonal concerns, but if you factor in the desire to finish quickly, then they are not. Bryan is...
While it is arguable that many languages can be adopted to use with various methodologies, one must admit that in hindsight one should be able to select the...
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Mar 30, 2003 8:17 pm
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Object orientation really is not delivering the promise of re-use although some organizational discipline is achieved. OO enables reuse quite well; however, in...
