... dropping gratuitous vertical whitespace, and obviating comments) is that the indent is perceptible. One-space and two-space indents make me very...
Has anybody done much with telepresence and XP teams? Like others, I've struggled for years with clients who want options other than having everybody in one...
... I don't know about your pipes, but on ours VNC is too freakin' slow. Can I hold out for a holograph of a real pair sitting next to me? -- Phlip ...
... Such "first piece of somebody else's code" typically come with team and boss pressure to don't "change anything you don't need to because you might break ...
... Amen to that. However, I was thinking about something a little different. More like a window between two offices to make them one. Except with bits. Not...
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... JB wrote: Interesting. Does your language make it costly to extract logical breaks into separate methods? ... No, it's not costly and I could see that...
0-space indents on HTML does sound crazy. although worth a try. :-) Does anyone have any preferences/arguments/documentation/examples for spacing/formatting in...
To me, "Sometimes there are good reasons for diverging from the standard" is true, but is really just an extension of the standard. Cases like this should be...
... O'Reilly's "ant book" for Oracle SQL*Plus has some super-cute recommendations for normal select statements. In a monospace font... select * from Frogs ...
... Not everyone follows (or has even heard of) the rubric that unit tests shall not touch the file system. Some of us might even write a searcher that ...
Hello, Phlip. On Sunday, September 2, 2007, at 3:07:44 PM, you ... Yes. I find that when building up, avoiding /all/ file accesses is overkill. In legacy...
... Well, aside from the last part, and the part about cluttering up the source with *comments* that have nothing to do with the code itself, (which is what...
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Hello, John. On Sunday, September 2, 2007, at 9:16:05 PM, you ... Oh yes, I completely agree. One needs to know how to do it, and important not to build...
... Sure, as long as your version control system is one that updates the working copy when a change is made to a commit without the working copies involvement....
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This recommendation was interesting: "You can magnify the effect of a powerful language by using a style called bottom-up programming, where you write programs...
Exactly. Many people confound the final form with the order in which things were built. Just because the end result may be these kind of DSL layers does not ...
Did any body try a new tool Analyst Real Team System 7.0 (ARTS)( www.analysttool.com ). It allows to track user stories, requirements, tasks, test cases, etc....
... I'm surprised James or Gary hasn't posted yet, but that's the kind of stuff they are doing - except with their customers. They have a dedicated link from...
... We do have very high quality video conferencing equipment, and we use it extensively to communicate with our Customers in DC. As far as I know, no one has...
Hi, There's developers in the Virginia office??? I thought that was just where they kept all the business people, safely away from the scary developers. ;) ...
