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

strife25 Volunteering at the CS career fair now that I've finished dealing with lovable parking services

by John Ryding, Jazz Engineer @ Microsoft, ajax

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

strife25 FML: after figuring out my car's complicated parking situation today, i now have to move it by 7 for snow plowing

by John Ryding, Jazz Engineer @ Microsoft, ajax

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

tfisher HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features http://mashable.com/2010/02/08/gmail-social/ via @mashable

by Timothy Fisher, Author of the Java Phrasebook and the Ruby on Rails Bible, Java

strife25 gah, today sucks, so unbelievably busy

by John Ryding, Jazz Engineer @ Microsoft, ajax

unclebobmartin View from hotel. http://yfrog.com/3g19wfuj

by Robert C. Martin, Leaders in the software craftsmanship movement, Java

unclebobmartin Wheels down AUA

by Robert C. Martin, Leaders in the software craftsmanship movement, Java

graemerocher RT @jasonrudolph : Just released: Getting Started with Grails, Second Edition. Free download. Goes great w/ Grails 1.2. http://is.gd/7WfQ7

by Graeme Rocher, Head of Grails Development at SpringSource, 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

strife25 Today i had to make an important decision: dress war or suit up. I think we all know what i chose.

by John Ryding, Jazz Engineer @ Microsoft, ajax

tfisher RT @a2rb Rails3 Hack Night TONIGHT @ 7pm in 1670CSE: http://bit.ly/cqLvwc Map: http://bit.ly/a2rbmap

by Timothy Fisher, Author of the Java Phrasebook and the Ruby on Rails Bible, Java

tfisher Great book for Ruby developers I'm currently reading... "Refactoring: Ruby Edition".. Also recommend "Refactoring" for non-rubyists...

by Timothy Fisher, Author of the Java Phrasebook and the Ruby on Rails Bible, Java

tfisher Unit tests are not just for QA... Writing unit tests WILL improve the design of your code.. many developers don't realize that...

by Timothy Fisher, Author of the Java Phrasebook and the Ruby on Rails Bible, Java

unclebobmartin CLT->AUA

by Robert C. Martin, Leaders in the software craftsmanship movement, Java

unclebobmartin Wheels down CLT

by Robert C. Martin, Leaders in the software craftsmanship movement, Java

unclebobmartin ORD->CLT

by Robert C. Martin, Leaders in the software craftsmanship movement, Java

strife25 huzzah, systems project 1 completed!

by John Ryding, Jazz Engineer @ Microsoft, ajax

unclebobmartin We think of distance as something tangible. What if it's not? What if it's just RT? Like distance in the matrix is not really distance.

by Robert C. Martin, Leaders in the software craftsmanship movement, Java