Month: December 2005

Over the past few weeks I’ve been pretty quiet on the blogging and list front. I’ve had a lot going on behind the scenes, and can now announce that I have accepted a position with a wonderful XP shop (and great company) called CARFAX in Columbia, MO. I am very excited by the opportunities there,…

A couple of weeks ago I posted a tutorial for getting Fitnesse and .NET working together. It was a good success, but I had an ulterior motive. I really just wanted to suck you, the reader, in so I could bring to you Ruby – a fun OO language. However, getting Ruby hooked up proved…

(Note: I posted this to Slashdot about a week ago and it’s still pending. I’ll update this when they finally get it in their review section) (Update: It finally got posted, only two months later.) I recently got sent a copy of Bruce Tate‘s newest book Beyond Java – A Glimpse at the Future of…

Recently on the C# Design Patterns mailing list, an email came over about this post by Andres Aguiar. In it, he makes an argument that I have heard several times before – why should I write a simple test when I know it’s going to fail, and besides, I know what it needs to do,…

A recent discussion on the TDD list led me to this paper from Rick Garlikov about how he used a method of asking questions to teach a group of third graders binary arithmetic in a short interactive session that I found quite fascinating: The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling