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January 13, 2004
Sam Gentile on .NET Rocks
Sam Gentile is on .NET Rocks and talks about .NET and eXtreme Programming.
A few thoughts and sound bytes as I listen to it.
Pair programming gives you "instant code reviews"
I overheard someone complaining about working in pair programming recently. He was complaining about his partner nagging him about using the down arrow instead of page down. At least as I understand it, not the type of thing your pair programming partner is supposed to help you out with. No wonder lots of people disregard pair programming. I had one course where we were required to program in pairs during labs. Could of been a neat and effective idea, except we were given little background of how it was supposed to work.
"I've had fairly good partners."
I think this is important. Pair Programming sounds like an excellent way for outstanding developers to make each other even better. It seems to me that a lot of the more "traditional" methodologies are an attempt to minimize the effect any one developer has on a project. While they prevent a horrible developer from ruining a project, they also limit an outstanding developers. I think that is the way it is with everything, it is extremely difficult to protect yourself from huge failures without limiting yourself from huge gains. I suppose those traditional methodologies will work better when you ship all your programming overseas (or just outsource in general) when you don't know the developers.
Sam talked about NUnit. I know I've mentioned it several times, but yet again need to check out NUnit for test driven development.
Mark Dunn says "I've tried C++ several times. It made me want to shave a cat." Yeah, he's from the south.
Posted by mikel at January 13, 2004 04:03 PM
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