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Kent Beck

Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max
Programmer, author, father, husband, goat farmer
Java
http://twitter.com/KentBeck
http://www.threeriversinstitute.org

9662 followers

2395 tweets

KentBeck working junit with @dsaff . ichat is misbehaving again. raw vnc is so much slower, though. ouch. ichat come back. was it something i said?
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck smalltalk vendors are in a bizarre nash equilibrium wrt compatibility of basic types: numbers, time, sockets.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck junit: we got the first ever (12 yrs!) patch that 1) follows the coding conventions, 2) has pretty unit tests & 3) is generally applicable
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck duh, that should have been 1-1 coaching
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck i ask because the most successful part of my business right now is as an educator (1-2 coaching), but i'm not sure what to educate about
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck what is it that programmers dream of being able to be or do that they can't see how to achieve? i never thought to ask this before.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck banging my head against monticello in visualworks. enough. time to shovel actual manure.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck From the Startupland Book of Sad Phrases "We thought more functionality = more satisfaction = more users." http://bit.ly/b9k6aw
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck when my opinion of where an operation belong disagrees with they system's, guess who's right...
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck turns out there's a big difference between a test suite running in 1 second and a test suite running in 6 seconds.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck annotations on fields are *way* cooler than annotations on classes or methods: http://bit.ly/ckaddq
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck once again: get the customer first or you'll end up implementing a bunch of useless functionality. ~952nd time i've done this. never again..
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck working on mongotalk driver. idea otd: implement queries as smalltalk collections instead of the usual cursor metaphor -- size, do:, etc.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck #book "The Principles of Scientific Management" chilling little source of many sw dev woes http://bit.ly/cRQXab
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck must be epigram day: when customers suggest a solution, that's the beginning of the conversation not the end
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck good programmers appreciate the features you put in. expert programmers appreciate the features you left out.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck dogen zenji: "reading about a medicine won't effect a cure. without practice, no emergence."
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck unit tests and source control are muck boots for the programmer's mind--you just don't have to worry where you walk
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck lots of travel coming up (by our homebody standards). scandinavia in march and israel in june.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck annotations on fields turn out to be much more powerful than annotations on classes. instance creation is additional leverage.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck just couldn't grok the implementation changes we were making. trying a new api. maybe the context was wrong, not (just) my brain.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck the problem with things that just work is when they don't. ichat screen sharing gets an "unknown connection error"
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck working on junit with @dsaff once again. better than standing in the rain, of which we have plenty.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck RT @dsaff : As #c is to #go, #java is to... ?
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
KentBeck republished "state of responsive design" article from pragmag as a blog entry http://bit.ly/df2yWa looks awfully terse now.
by Kent Beck, Author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained / Developer of JUnit Max, Java
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