March 8, 2010
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Articles, Practices, XP Magazine
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.
March 6, 2010
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Articles, Practices, XP Magazine
Choose your tools wisely, that they allow for the development of your skill.
March 5, 2010
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Articles, Practices, XP Magazine
Jim Shore has written a short item with the above title. Let’s think about it a bit.
January 4, 2010
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Kate Oneal, XP Magazine
After a failed iteration, the team regroups with a few new stories.
January 4, 2010
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Book Review, XP Magazine
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.
December 21, 2009
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Beyond Agile, XP Magazine
Agile projects very often seem to stall out after gaining perhaps twenty-five percent of the possible benefit. Why is this? What can be done?
December 16, 2009
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Beyond Agile, XP Magazine
Incremental and iterative development processes provide frequent opportunities for teams to “Inspect and Adapt”. What should we inspect? How should we adapt? Is this part of the process?
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.
At the Agile Developer Skills course at the Raikes School, I commented that we don’t usually test accessors. But we test everything. Is this a contradiction?
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.