Before we get started, Dave Nicolette asked if I wouldn’t mind posting some of the discussion that came out of the interviewing talk. We had several people in an open space session discussing how they hire agile people. We all agreed that pair programming was an important part. It seemed like pretty much everyone had…
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Agile 2006 – Day 2
Today was a tough day with so many good sessions and OpenSpace events going on. After much debated, I started the day off in Todd Little’s Context Driven Agile Leadership. Just before his presentation started, I was talking with a genetleman from a consulting firm out of D.C. who said something interesting: “Anybody can rearrange…
Agile 2006 – Days 1 and 2
Whew. This is my first year being able to come to the annual Agile conference. It is definately everything I thought it would be so far, and I’m having a blast. Here’s a recap of some of the more interesting things that have happened over the past 2 days: Sunday (Day 1): The day started…
Tampa Code Camp Followup
First, my apologies for the length of time since my last post. I’ve been travelling and haven’t had good access to the internet. I’m at Agile 2006 now and will be posting updates shortly. However, on July 15th, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Tampa Code Camp at the University of South Florida…
Putting Out Fires
I happened across a thread on the ScrumDevelopment list discussing putting out fires – in other words having time/resources available during iterations for production support that was unforeseen. Having spent 7 years with on a fire department, the phrase has a special meaning to me. However, I started thinking about the parallels between the production…
Test-Driving a Sudoku Solver in Ruby
(Update: The Game.rb and GameTest.rb files were refactored and can be found here: Game.rb, GameTest.rb) Over on the XP list, a topic was brought up about types of examples one can use in a Test-Driven Development class. That led to a discussion about a Sudoku Solver. Sudoku is a game with a 9×9 grid which…
We’re only as agile as our process
One of the tasks my current team was given when it was started was to do things “the right way.” In other words, the company felt like maybe they weren’t /really/ practicing XP, and perhaps there was a way to crank it up to 11. However, yesterday my pair leaned over and said, “We’re only…
So, who cares about Mono anyway?
In my last post about getting NUnit running on Mono/Linux, Ed Gibbs commented: I understand the challenge of getting something like NUnit running on Mono, but I really don’t get the point of Mono. Congrats on getting it running. Does anyone run Mono for real production projects? I did post some links in response, but…
NUnit GUI running green on Mono/Linux!
Indeed. I got the NUnit GUI to not only display, but to run the test-suite I had loaded into it. I had to change the test options to Load the assemblies in seperate AppDomains, and uncheck Assembly reload before each test run, but it was incredibly exciting to watch it run the test suite. Here’s…
Speaking at the Tampa Code Camp July 15th
Just a quick note to say that I’ll be speaking in Tampa, FL at the Tampa Code Camp on July 15th. I’ll be doing 3 sessions – one on Fitnesse, one on Ruby for C# Developers, and a third on Test-Driving ASP.NET development with NUnit and NUnitAsp. Registration is capped to 350 registrants, so be…