By way of learning something, I followed the walkthroughs in Visual Studio to build, deploy, and access a Web Service. These are some notes on what I learned. Mostly history, some pictures of what you get, and a little of the code.

Jeff, an experienced XP coach, takes a hard look at Pete McBreen’s book, and finds it to contain good questions. He feels that the answers fall short — perhaps due to Pete’s inexperience with XP.

Wyatt provides a detailed, exciting, and valuable diary of a project moving towards Extreme Programming. Highly Recommended.

The authors show us how they use aspect-oriented programming in AspectJ to facilitate isolation of testable units, without hand-crafting Mock Objects or using a specialized Mock Object generation tool.