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Extreme Programming in St Louis

Went to the XPStL meeting last night, to hear Brian Button talk about refactoring, a key part of Extreme Programming, also known as XP. Extreme Programming has absolutely nothing to do with Extreme Ironing. Really interesting talk/code walk through/lesson/discussion, and the cookies were pretty good too. Normally,

Enough

Would the person who is leaving junk scribbles in my comments kindly stop, or I'll find a way to IP ban you. I've turned on IP logging in the comment script. Everyone else is welcome to stay.

Hands off my stuff!

It really ticks me off when someone swipes something from one of my sites and publishes it on their site without even asking, or giving credit. I don't care if you say you're Christians, I don't care where you're from, get MY

Playing catch up

One of the reasons for keeping a blog is so that our friends in the UK can keep up with us. One of those friends flew back to England yesterday, and the past two weeks have been a great holiday and catch up session. And we do miss her already.

Security

It's actually frightening how wide open a company can leave itself by not making people choose decent computer passwords. All the firewalls in the world won't help you if someone gets hold of a list of usernames and throws a standard dictionary attack at it. A

Programmer's virtues

Laziness The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue

Google blocked?

BBC News story: China 'blocking Google'. China appears to have blocked access to the popular search engine, Google. The site was repeatedly inaccessible when tested by BBC News Online using a system developed by the researchers at the Harvard Law School. Google has become popular among users in

Random bits

Chronicle has been seriously refactored, and now runs as a stand-alone executable JAR file. Huge improvement, start up time is well down, and a 0.25 release is in the works. This is what happens when Hubby gets into Extreme Programming in a big way. Roxanne left with the Rio

More on advertising

Found an article in the BBC News: Why ads on the net don't work, by Bill Thompson (link via The Group Captain). I want to tell all of these advertisers to stop, because it is getting in the way. I use the net a lot - for work,

Get off my computer!

(Approaching rant factor 7 Captain, the engines can't take much more!) Pop-up advertising, banner ads, and junk email all plague the internet like that nasty algae that blooms on the sea, covering everything with green slime. Physical junk mail gets tossed out unopened, but at least it costs

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