Exploring Extreme Programming
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, Pete Seeger. Lancaster Press. 1997. ISBN 1-881322-10-6 The subtitle is “A Musical Autobiography,” and that’s what it is. It’s chock-full of songs (both words and music) and reminiscences of a long life. It gave Continue reading Review – Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
MouthSounds: How to whistle, pop, boing, and honk, Fred Newman. Workman Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0761134220. I love books that are a smorgasbord, and this one certainly qualifies. Flip to any page, and you’ll find an interesting sound to make. Great Continue reading Review – MouthSounds
What’s in your team room? I summarize responses from the extremeprogramming newsgroup. Continue reading What’s in Your Team Room?
JUnit Recipes, JB Rainsberger. Manning, 2004. If test-driven development makes sense, but you need help in particular areas, this book provides it. JB covers everything from basic object testing to patterns, databases, XML, servlets, and more J2EE. Well-written and highly Continue reading Review – JUnit Recipes
The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler. Portfolio, 2004. “Empowerment” has been a buzzword, but Semler makes it happen in his organization. He encourages people to make their own decisions and take the consequences, and puts that in action in “his” company. Continue reading Review – The Seven-Day Weekend
As a result of Kent Beck’s “Programming Intensive” workshop, Kent, Joseph Leddy, and I created a paper on one small aspect of design. Continue reading Cutting with the Grain: The Rhythms of Design
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising, Addison-Wesley, 2005. How do you help a new idea along? This book uses patterns to suggest ways to make that happen. The first part of the book Continue reading Review – Fearless Change
Procedural tests focus on a series of steps; declarative tests work from the input and states. Procedural tests are natural to write, but consider whether a declarative test expresses your intent more concisely and clearly. Continue reading Procedural and Declarative Tests
A way to initialize a Java object. Continue reading Pattern Patter: Anonymous Subclass with Instance Initializer
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2/e, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. ISBN 0321278658. Kent Beck’s new introduction to the practices and philosophy of XP. See an extended summary. (Reviewed Feb., ’05)