Archive for February, 2003

February 16, 2003

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XP Magazine

Adventures in C#: Testing XSLT

We’re going to try to be a bit more test-driven in our work with XSLT and the chapter number lookup. This turns out to be more difficult than we could have hoped. I think the result is a bit of an improvement. You get to decide whether you agree.

February 14, 2003

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XP Magazine

Adventures in C#: Chapter Numbers inside the Chapters

We would like the chapters to have the chapter number in them. The chapter number is in the file name, but we don’t know how to get it into the output chapter. We have a scheme in mind. Maybe we can make it work. For sure we are going to learn something.

Recent Articles

Developer Quality! … and Certification?

Uncle Bob Martin comments on “Developer Certification WTF?” in a recent blog entry. Let’s talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.

Book Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft

Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.

What is really essential?

Jens Meydam asked “What do you really care about in Scrum?” I decided to answer, instead, “What do you think is really essential in Scrum-style software development?