September 28, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
Things in the skills development area have changed in some
interesting ways. We have room for a few more people who want tocontribute to our proposed session in Ann Arbor.
September 10, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
Scrum luminaries freely grant the necessity for good developer practices, and the Scrum Alliance is thinking about developer certification. Some important people in the community are involved, and so am I. Read on …
September 8, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
Extreme Programming used to have a very specific meaning. It still has a fairly specific meaning. Scrum still has a fairly specific meaning. It, too, has drifted a bit over time. It is natural that terms drift a bit as…
September 8, 2009
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XP Magazine
There has been some discussion of late regarding the use of Test-Driven Development ideas in non-software areas. This is a really good idea and I would like to talk about it here.
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.