Doug Stewart

Ease at work - by Kent Beck

Doug — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:01:22 +0000

This talk given by Kent Beck at Agitar Software offers some great suggestions into being at ease in the work place. 1 of 7 2 of 7 3 of 7 4a of 7 4b of 7 5 of 7 6 of 7 7 of 7

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Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences - by Robert Sapol

Doug — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:00:20 +0000

Great insight into the various physiological effects of stress. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1877467554618436978

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Tools for Agility - by Kent Beck

Doug — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:37:56 +0000

The trend toward greater transparency to wider audiences will continue. It may be hard to unlearn habits and beliefs, but in a world of wide and free flowing information, keeping secrets is a position of weakness. You never know when you are going to be found out. Transparency is the new strength. Tools for Agility

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Learning from Lean - by Kent Beck

Doug — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:34:53 +0000

If software development is lean manufacturing, software development should aim to produce decisions at the same rate as it consumes them. If software development is lean product development, software development should strive to retain and disseminate learning. Learning from Lean

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Promiscuous Pairing and Beginners Mind

Doug — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:19:20 +0000

Here is a paper by Arlo Belshee that I found interesting: http://svn.arlim.org/arlo_papers/Promiscuous%20pairing/Agile%202005/paper.doc I also saved it locally here: http://dougstewart.info/downloads/PromiscuousPairingAndBeginnersMind_ArloBelshee.doc This form of pair-programming has incredible promise for so many reasons. Hopefully I will encounter an opportunity to practice promiscuous pairing in the near future. The concept of beginner’s mind is something I practice alone, attempting to distrust [...]

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Composed Method

Doug — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:48:40 +0000

This pattern is probably my most favorite. The inherent value of small, manageable, legible, understandable, and easily over-ridable methods is perhaps unmatched. How many times has a subclass and a couple of over-ridden methods provided the simple and elegant solution we were after. Or, how many times have we been in the position of having [...]

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Smalltalk and Apache

Doug — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:11:22 +0000

I really want an Apache module that will allow me to script in Smalltalk instead of having to use Php. This would support my goal of making Smalltalk the language of choice and get folks more exposure to life without curly braces (oh and what a grand life it is). With that accomplished, forums, blogs, [...]

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Organic/Evolutionary design

Doug — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:33:04 +0000

Design up-front is the most established and practiced design discipline in my experience. Most experienced developers/engineers assert that designing system architectures up-front is essential to ensuring that the finished overall application or suite of applications is architecturally sound, stable, inter-operable, extensible, secure, and efficient. The arguments for this design approach are fairly sound and straight-forward. [...]

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Style/Formatting: Vol 1

Doug — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:35:39 +0000

Style or formatting is the most ignored practice in all of programming - well, arguably. To me, formatting represents the single most important part of the coding. Formatting has the potential to do the following to the code: enhance the understandability of the code make the code easier to read reduce the amount of time a developer spends [...]

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Movie Reaction: Instinct

Doug — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:38:51 +0000

Brief Summary: Anthony Hopkins plays a biologist who has studied apes for many years. He ends up in a security hospital/jail for folks with mental issues. He is then confronted by Cuba Gooding Jr., a psychologist who implores Hopkins to tell his story. Reaction: Just watched this movie for the second time over the weekend. I [...]

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