January 4, 2010
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Book Review, XP Magazine
Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.
April 29, 2006
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Book Review
Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, and Dion Almaer bring us a valuable and enjoyable book describing Ajax. It is full of running examples, points out the major gotchas, and it’s a good read too! Recommended!
April 17, 2006
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Book Review
Scott and Pramod have done an excellent job with this book. It’s full of practical advice about how to improve your database design, when to do it, and even how to manage the transitions. If your project involves a database, this book can help.
January 19, 2004
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Book Review
Bill Bryson writes a delicious book that lives up to its title. The cosmos, the earth, atoms, geology, life, homo sapiens — it’s all here.
September 10, 2003
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Book Review
This isn’t just one of those self-improvement books. It asks us to dig deeply into our own feelings about people and situations. Reading this with an open mind will ask some hard questions that need answers.
September 5, 2003
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Book Review
This book is painful to read for anyone who understands what XP is, because it goes to such pains not to understand, to take out of context, and to distort.
It is dangerous to read for anyone who does not understand what XP is, because it goes to such pains not to understand, to take out of context, and to distort.
August 19, 2003
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Book Review
Barry Boehm and Richard Turner have produced an important and balanced book about agile versus plan-driven methods. Unfortunate title, perhaps, and a few things to disagree with, but highly recommended.
October 9, 2002
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Book Review
Jeff, an experienced XP coach, takes a hard look at Pete McBreen’s book, and finds it to contain good questions. He feels that the answers fall short — perhaps due to Pete’s inexperience with XP.
Kate gives Dan Devlin, the company owner, an overview of Scrum.
Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.
Here’s the current code, and some commentary, for the “But We Need a Database” article. UPDATED: Comments on Python style.