Ron Jeffries just announced that he will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Waterfall 2006 conference with an intriguing keynote entitled Extreme Programming Uninstalled. From the conference page: Feedback, we now see, is the problem, not the solution. How is it possible to get anything done if all the time you’re looking for, listening…
Month: January 2006
Creating a PPTP tunnel using Monowall
A break from development a bit here, but in getting settled down into the new place, one of the things I decided to go ahead and do was use a Monowall box as my primary firewall. For years I’ve been using a Linksys Wireless router, and it’s still serving it’s purpose in Charlotte until we…
Shifting the burden
Let’s face it. Software we build is going to have bugs. Anytime you are writing a large system in the face of changing requirements, something isn’t going to work. It might be that a requirement wasn’t met, or changed during development. It might be that a spec was misunderstood, or that we as developers didn’t…
Unit Tests are Free in TDD
A recent post by William Pietri on the XP list caught my eye: Alas, I don’t have the data Brad is looking for on requirements gathering, but I did just happen to come up with some data on that eternal novice XP question: Doesn’t writing all of that test code slow you down? I just…
Developers and TLAs
An interesting thing happened today. I’ve started a new position with a great company. Though I’ll be working out of Columbia, MO, they flew the team out to D.C. to the headquarters for the project kickoff. Last night and today has been a whirlwind of information, getting a fast-tracked overview of their existing systems and…