Archive for November, 2006

November 29, 2006

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Shooting in the Dark

While we wait for the estimates to come rolling in, and before I forget, here’s a report on our work so far on the Shot Pattern Analysis program.

November 28, 2006

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Shooting for Simple Design

Estimation, simplicity, TDD, tracking. Chet and Ron undertake a project a bit larger than their usual run, to see what happens.

November 16, 2006

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Single Frame Cleanup

The Frame object in our Haskell-inspired Java program has an awkward interface. Let’s take a look at it and see what can be done.

November 15, 2006

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Thoughts and Actions: Single Frame Scoring

Let’s proceed with making the Haskell-inspired Java version “better”, focusing on writing tests for a new Frame object. The code gets odd, but turns out better after a while …

November 7, 2006

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Thoughts and Actions: Beyond Haskell

The Haskell experiment we did at the Simple Design and Testing conference has led to some questions and some answers. I’d like to discuss some of them here, and start in a slightly different direction based on the learning.

November 5, 2006

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Recurring Drama

The continuing saga of recursive implementations of Bowling, email from our fans, and a refactoring of my Java code.

November 4, 2006

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More Hassling with Haskell

Lots of fine feedback on the Haskell article. Alternative implementations in Java, Ruby, and even Haskell! Much fun! PLUS!! FATAL FLAW DISCOVERED IN RECURSIVE VERSIONS!!

November 1, 2006

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Haskell Bowling

At the Simple Design and Testing conference, Dan Mead bravely agreed to implement the infamous Bowling Game exercise, TDD style, in Haskell. It was fun and interesting. Here I present some discussion, his program, and a Java program in a similar style.

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The Gift … a Report and a Request

The Story in Brief

At Agile2011, I brought along a “gift”, a nicely formatted and illustrated Kate Oneal story. I gave a copy to everyone who asked for one, and to a few people who didn’t but who I wanted…

Why Did You Do That, Ron?

Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.

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