Exploring Extreme Programming
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics, by William Dunham. ISBN 014014739X. Penguin, 1991. This book is a wonderful mix of proofs and history. The proofs are interesting (and showed me how rusty I am on some of this), Continue reading Review – Journey through Genius
When you need to break up a big feature, you often have many choices about how to do so. Continue reading Slicing Functionality: Alternate Paths
Lessons for Fit. Continue reading Extreme Test Makeover – Agile ’06
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovich. Tarcher/Putnam, 1990. When everything happens in “real time”, we have improvisation, whether it’s music or drama (or software!). Nachmanovitch explores the interplay of freedom and rules, of work and play, of Continue reading Review – Free Play
Sudoku is a fairly well-known type of puzzle. Solving it turns out to be easier than I expected, but a somewhat odd example of test-driven development. Continue reading Sudoku Solver
Sample chapter – Adapter. Continue reading Design Patterns in Java – Sample Chapter – Adapter
How do you plan the overall shape of a project in XP? This article summarizes planning with little reference to the programming aspects of XP. Continue reading Agile Project Management, XP Style
The Spoken Word Revolution, Mark Eleveld (Editor). SourceBooks, Inc., 2005. Poetry has of course long since moved beyond iambic pentameter. What’s striking for me in this collection is how important sound and rhythm are to many poems. The CD that Continue reading Review – The Spoken Word Revolution
Agile Web Development with Rails. Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, et al. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005. Ruby on Rails is a framework for developing web sites. This book explains it well. It starts with a decent-sized online store as a running Continue reading Review – Agile Web Development with Rails
Design Patterns in Java. Steve Metsker and William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2006. I won’t review my own book, but I will summarize: This is a workbook-style book, updating Steve’s earlier Design Patterns Java Workbook and Design Patterns in C#. It covers the same 23 Continue reading Review – Design Patterns in Java