August 2009 - Posts
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Today is my birthday - I had arthroscopic knee surgery last night and am feeling pretty good so far (happy birthday to me). I know I still have a lot of meds/painkillers in my system and that its going to feel more uncomfortable the next few days. I'm...
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First, on a personal note, I had the misfortune to tear cartilage in my right knee a couple days ago and will require surgery to repair/remove it. I'm hobbling around on crutches for the time being. I hope I can still attend (and present at) Agile2009...
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I'll be presenting at Agile2009 in Chicago on the Tools for Agility stage on Tuesday 25 August, 4:45pm-5:30pm. Here is my session description from http://agile2009.org/node/2762 WANTED: Seeking Single Agile Knowledge Development Tool-set Aren’t code...
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This question came-up in a discussion earlier this week: Do we know of published studies on this subject? A quick Google-search turned up the following for me ... George Dinwiddie 's page on Studies of Test-Driven Development has links to a dozen...
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I found a really good resource-list from George Dinwiddie on Introspection and Retrospectives that includes the following list of resources (mostly patterns & techniques) about conducting retrospectives. It contains many (but not all) of the links...
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In my previous post, Refactoring for Agility , I posted an outline and some thoughts for Part I of an Overview on Refactoring. Now I'm ready to post on Part II which is about refactoring @ scale. By "at scale" I mean in the larger context...
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Some of you might have guessed from my recent posts on Emergent Design , Technical Debt , JEDI Programming , and 5S Qualities of Well Designed, Well-Factored Code , that I've been looking into trying to teach the fundamentals of refactoring and how...
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Three more brand new books I just received that are worth mentioning ... Version Control with Git : Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development, by Jon Loeliger, O'Reilly, 2009 Mercurial: The Definitive Guide -- Modern Software...
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I blogged earlier about The Passionate Programmer and The Nomadic Developer . A new book just came out that seems like the perfect complement to these two: Landing the Tech Job You Love by Andy Lester (also from the Pragmatic Programmers ). I've only...
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