Book Reviews III
A detective in puce, mentoring, massive parallel processing, and two books on writing. What more could you want?
January 28, 2002
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Book Review
A detective in puce, mentoring, massive parallel processing, and two books on writing. What more could you want?
January 28, 2002
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Book Review
Chet looks at some humor and some ancient architecture. We leave it to you to figure out which is which.
January 25, 2002
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Articles
Sean Shubin has begun using Test-First development. He wanted to share these ideas and guidelines with us.
January 21, 2002
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.
January 20, 2002
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
January 20, 2002
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Book Review
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
January 20, 2002
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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?
January 20, 2002
Fear is good if there’s a tiger in the room. Not so good if there’s a bug in the software.
Jon Bettinger has found a failing test! Excellent!
Philip Schwarz provided a nice-looking implementation. Let’s look at it and try to build on his ideas.
I’ve been working with Scala a bit, just to learn what it is. I’ve found it interesting, if frustrating. Here is a bowling experiment.