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bitwix: April 2007
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Friday, April 20, 2007. XP Customers : 9 plus 9. Credit where credit is due : these come from the presentation Programmers are from Mars, Customers are from Venus. By Angela Martin, Robert Biddle and James Noble at XPDay 2006. Geek Interpreter : talk to the XP programmers. Technical Liaison : talk to the IT department. Political Adviser : identify key players and rules. Acceptance Tester : is it good enough? UI Designer : does it look OK? Saved by the yello...
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bitwix: June 2006
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Tuesday, June 27, 2006. Regex, Roman Numerals and TDD. I read a blog. On Roman Numeral Conversion and decided to do the reverse, roman to integer conversion. I wanted to use Regular Expressions as I thought they would allow a neat treatment. And I wanted to use Test Driven Development (TDD) to ensure that I had written what I thought I had written. RomanToInt r2i = new RomanToInt();. Assert.AreEqual(0, r2i.Convert( " ) );. RomanToInt r2i = new RomanToInt();.
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bitwix: September 2006
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Friday, September 01, 2006. Agile leadership - make it happy. Brian Marick blogged An unhappy trend: leadership. Which I saw supported on Willem van den Ende's post Just enough structure. I took part in Willem's Drawing Carousel session. This is a sign that there is a desire for co-ordination and overseeing - I’m going to call that leadership. And that self-organising teams may well not put someone in this role. Posted by bitwix @ 11:37 AM.
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bitwix: March 2006
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Sunday, March 19, 2006. This is just a wee bitch about Microsoft's permanent need to improve our programming lives. In this case, it's about rounding numbers to two decimal places. At school, I was taught to round up if the number ended in 5. And that's what the Excel rounding routines (see above) do. It's also what the SQL Server ROUND function does - see below. It is pretty stink, as they say in New Zealand. Posted by bitwix @ 6:09 PM.
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bitwix: August 2006
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Thursday, August 31, 2006. Wireless at the birthplace of Computing. Ah, the freelance life. No ties, no office to go to, no fixed hours. I can work anywhere, so I choose to work from the home of Charles Babbage, England's claim to be the inventor of the computer. First, South London has to claim to be his birthplace. The. International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Lists him as born in Teignmouth, Devon, so I prefer the. If not, relocate to ...
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bitwix: September 2007
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Monday, September 03, 2007. Here's a heterodoxy born out of weakness. Tests are Delaying my Development. I love the idea of Test-Driven Development (TDD). C# and NUnit go together like Flintoff and Injuries. But I'm writing an ASP.Net web site and I just can't get going on TDD for it. Time which delays the development. Hmm. This is written on the first working day of September 2007. I shall see whether I still find this in December, in March. Saved by the y...
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bitwix: December 2007
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Friday, December 28, 2007. The Art of Agile Development - Book Reactions. Here are a few reactions to The Art of Agile Development. By James Shore and Shane Warden, O'Reilly, 2007. It's a deceptively big book. Just over 400 pages and a small type face, so there are a lot of words. The type size means long lines - sixteen or eighteen words per line - which I find a strain to read. Do programmers ever make guesses rather than getting answers to questions?
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bitwix: October 2006
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Monday, October 09, 2006. First, some inspiration. Three simple improvements which anyone can understand. RAF planes take off more easily by using a ramp at the end of an aircraft carrier's flight deck. Ski jumpers fly further if they splay their skis. A turned up tip at the end of an aircraft wing improves long-haul efficiency. Why Simplicity is a good thing. Because it’s cheap and it’s knowable. And cheap is good because either (a) you get to spend more o...
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bitwix: August 2007
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Tangential comments about Software Development. Wednesday, August 29, 2007. City Gate House by Giles Gilbert Scott. 1880-1960 Knighted 1924 RIBA President 1933-1935. It was his view that to employ an architect was an act of faith, and that once the problem was set there should be no interference with matters of design. Hubert Worthington, RIBA Journal 1960. Let us aim at quality rather than novelty. Liverpool Anglican Cathedral 1903-60, fininshed 1980. William Booth Memorial College (Camberwell) 1926-29.
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