Hi there, This is a continuation from an earlier post two weeks ago [*From the ground up vs. Top down development] *to which I added some questions. Ron...
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Aug 1, 2006 7:20 am
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... I would strongly recommend you first read: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932633447/sr=8-1/qid=1154418814/ref=sr_1_1/103-1795552-1948641?ie=UTF8 Simply...
... I did this once with a very large Oracle database. What we did was to snapshot the database (which took all weekend, but the weekend was downtime anyway), ...
Hello Anthony, Thanks for your email. On Tuesday, August 1, 2006, at 6:50:11 AM, ... Ambler and Sadalage, /Refactoring Databases/ offers a number of ideas for...
... Congratulations! This is something I hope to do some day, but I'm hoping that each of us will have development skills, and that in addition to being able...
There's so many point of sale (POS) packages out there (and inventory, etc.), I wonder why you didn't buy one for resale? Could you explain that decision? ... ...
... Well, If I purchased a proprietary system for resale I wouldn't have the code. I wouldn't be able to improve it or tailor it to the customers specific...
Psychie Naill
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Aug 1, 2006 6:07 pm
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... This sounds like a very good deal. You should be able to smoothly deliver a new version, with incrementally improved features, once a week. Owning the IT...
Psychie, Thank you for the clear and open description of your situation. It sounds like you are learning lots of things at once. This inevitably causes some ...
Eko, It would be nice if the whole organization could change quickly. As the new person on the team, though, you need time to build relationships. One way to ...
George, Multi-tasking can be a problem if you experience it as a series of interruptions. Some people experience it as a sense of flow, many items floating in...
Jonas, First, I don't think it is an accurate assumption that, "...everyone on the list has this stuff all figured out (since there has been very little ...
June, Thank you for sharing this idea. It sounds like your friend has found a very effective way to reflect on his experience. I can imagine being able to ...
Greg, During our workshop at Agile 2006, someone asked Cynthia how to get someone to do something agile (I don't remember the details). She said, "Have you ...
If your customer wants a lot of accounting and POS features, buying commercial source code OR getting something like QuickBooks POS gets you those features...
Everyone: We are looking for a "novice" trainer to teach a one-week Intro to XP course for us. Following are some particulars: Location: southeastern US ...
Hi list, Write proposal is quite important in soft develoment, so any articles or tips you can recommand to me? Thanks /Jack -- Keep Discovering ... ... ...
Jack Tang
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Aug 1, 2006 7:01 pm
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Hi, ... I have a friend who has been doing software development in the embedded realtime environment for at least 20 years (maybe 30 years now if he hasn't...
Hi, One thing that I've noticed about "exponential" developers is that they focus on "how to program" rather than "what to program." That is, some people study...
(Hi Kent - it was nice to work with you at Agile 2006 - I sat in on the XP Geography session). That is my experience. I was hired with the expectation that I...
To those who have read both Agile Retrospectives and Project Retrospectives: I have read Project Retrospectives a few years ago and have done project...
Hello Psychie, Thanks for writing. Your note was long, and I'll just excerpt and comment on bits of it. Sort of a chat. I'd suggest that you might want to just...
... That's hard to say. I'd like to say that everything has made a positive difference from the point of view that I've learned so much. On a code level I...
Psychie Naill
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Aug 2, 2006 12:52 pm
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... I did check some of the GPL PHP ones out but they didn't seem to do what was required. I also didn't like the coding styles used in some. In the end, it ...
Psychie Naill
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Aug 2, 2006 12:57 pm
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On 02/08/06, Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> wrote: I'd suggest that you might want to just quote and respond to bits and ... It was a rather large...
Psychie Naill
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Aug 2, 2006 1:39 pm
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Psychie, Indeed ... most of the most popular open source php projects out there use very poor coding standards (oscommerce is a glaring example), and sometimes...
... ... look around, and you may find some things in it that are handy. Thanks James, I'll definitely have a look at the libraries. Cheers for the tip. Psychie...
Psychie Naill
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Aug 2, 2006 3:53 pm
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... I am necessarily biased, as publisher, but here's my take on the Agile Retrospectives book: I see it as being more of a sequel, or expanding on the idea....
