A detective in puce, mentoring, massive parallel processing, and two books on writing. What more could you want?

Chet looks at some humor and some ancient architecture. We leave it to you to figure out which is which.

Sean Shubin has begun using Test-First development. He wanted to share these ideas and guidelines with us.

Maybe it’s just the name: Extreme Programming. Maybe it’s something we said. Whatever the cause, there are lots of misconceptions about XP. From time to time we’ll try to correct some of them here.

Bryan Dollery reports on an interesting conversation between Achilles and the Tortoise. This one is about design, or the lack of it, in XP. Thanks, Bryan

This is the first of a regular series of book reviews. We’ll only review books we have read, and we’ll call them the way we see them. This time we look at five books, ranging from XSLT to the world of Dream. Updated to add a sixth on time management

People work together to get what they want. One thing that everyone wants in one form or another is knowledge. How can we share knowledge about XP?

Fear is good if there’s a tiger in the room. Not so good if there’s a bug in the software.