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October 26, 1999
WhosWritingAboutXp
- Questions about whether events are future or past...
YtwokUpdate
- New 1.5 on 1-5 scale, embedded systems aren't too bad, CoryHamasaki, Debunking y2k links...
SiliconValleyPatternsGroup *
- New time and meeting place
EmacsVsVi *
- Pico, MacOS, VT100, vi modes, emacs, and EDT updates...
JavaSingleton
- More about people who might sabotage [nice reply]
TheFullMonty
- Origin of phrase and related stories...
MoviesToConsider
DataMusicProjectLinkForum
- People asked to link to contributions, reasons...
DataMusicProjectSteps *
EditText *
ProgrammingInPairs
- Pairs make CS more enjoyable, experience in CS classes...
October 25, 1999
ChicagoPatternsGroup
CategoryAuthor
- Wants to extend definition of author to WebAuthor
UniversityOfStThomas
- URL, warning about site...
HuntingOfTheSnark
- Quote related to projects, 42...
RefactoringWikiPages
- Example of non-appropriate backlinks | Remove inappropriate material, reply...
SecondGenerationProgrammer
- People whose parents were programmers, list of Wiki second-gen...
MoviesToConsider
- Monty Python... | More on Clockwork Orange...
ChangeSummaryDiscussion
ObjectTechnologyUserGroup
- Local group discussing object technology, URL...
PyWiki
- Experience with Solaris 2.6, changes to Xitami server.
TimBernersLee
- Inventor of WWW, book (ISBN) should be worth reading...
CanYouAdvertiseOnWiki
October 24, 1999
UseSignatures
- Signatures decreasing, increase of flippant short retorts, sign when willing to stick by posting...
ChangeSummaryDiscussion
- Requested features available on a test wiki (URL), source available...
- Could use a feature for consolidation.
PalmWiki
- Is there local equivalent for Windows?...
ReverseLinkDisabled
- Consider From Where as kind of bidirectional link...
PalmWiki
- GPL'ed Palm Wiki code (URL)...
SeaOfContent
AsWeMayThink
- Comments on article, new URL, CritDotOrg view | Reluctance to edit old pages...
MoviesToConsider
EncyclopaediaBritannica
- Description, available for free via web, temporary URL...
WhatsExtremeAboutIt
- Spinal Tap quote | Do Gosling and Gabriel really do XP?...
QualifyingEmployers
- More tips for spotting difficult bosses | Ask The Headhunter URL...
ThisIsSpinalTap
- Secret weapon knobs, with URL for quote and explanation...
October 23, 1999
WikiMirrors
- Statistics on world visitors of the mirror files...
FromWhere
- Multiple edits on whether
- From Where is appropriate and where Comments on wiki laissez-faire and consensus...
InternetEconomyOfCredibility
- More about pattern form usage for this idea...
OnlinePublishing
- Ecommerce, AmazonAssociate, integration into Wiki forum, list of author actions...
HistoryOfExtremeProgramming
- Wiki not for historical recording, but for exchange...
VbIsGoodForCrapProgrammers
- Possible acronym for "Create, Replace, Alter, Purge". [Yeah, likely story. * -]
- | Johnny Carson interview story...
WhyWikiWorks
- Conjectures that wiki maps structures inside brains like MindMaps...
From Where
- Usage and placement of From Where marker with list of reasons...
ComputerProgrammingForEverybody
- List of points where PythonLanguage needs improvement for beginners...
JiniTechnology
JiniWiki
- New wiki (URL) for Jini technology and community...
QualifyingEmployers
- Experiences with about 20 employers * list of guidelines...
October 22, 1999
TheThreeExtremos
* Three people central to XP...
VbIsBadForNewbies
* Problems with integrated Source Code Control Systems, reply...
TestDriver
* Concepts and terminology relevant to test driver of CppUtxOverview, source examples in C++, long discussion of design...
RealProgrammer
WikiCopyRights
- Reasons for signing name...
UseSignatures
- More reasons for using signatures...
ReverseLinkDisabled
- Use From Where as manual substitute...
InterfacesAreFormalSystems
- Windowed interfaces, event loops, interface can be represented by Finite State Machine, application as many FSAs, grammar...
RefactoringWikiPages
- Could you give example of page that does not benefit from backlinking list?
WikiWayOfLifeSolution
- Extension to full spectrum of life activities, including income producing...
WorkingLikeaFarrierCommunity
- Ways in which wiki is similar to working of farriers...
InternetEconomyOfCredibility
- Pattern form for and examples of wiki ideas? Is this really pattern?, reply...
GenerateBingoCards
- Word macro to generate bingo cards (source included). [Visual Basic (for apps) knowledge isn't useless after all! * -]
BuzzwordBingo
SteveJobs
- Descriptions, heroic, made billion dollars twice...
BuzzwordCompliant
- Description, use of buzzwords, contribution of Nixon administration...
KayJohansen
SlowLearner
- Better slow learner than non-learner... [Excellent page!]
FredrikRubensson
EventNotifier
- Description in component system, URL for pattern...
BuzzwordMasochist
- Recommendations for companies and products, several replies...
ExtremeUnifiedProcess
- Exactly what was needed, 80% XP, picking parts of Xp...
LindaTupleSpaces
- Invention of Linda Group (URL), commercial implementation available (URL)
TupleSpace s
PythonGuiBuilders
- List of GUI builders (URLs), COM and Java ideas...
ParallelVirtualMachine
- Description, de facto standard for distributed computing, URL...
ForthishWikiName
- Power of wiki comes from choice of few simple features, list of ideas tried and abandoned...
October 21, 1999
VbIsGoodForCrapProgrammers
- Hello world in VB and Delphi, Delphi not as popular, reasonable choice vs. preferences...
WhyWikiWorksNot
- Multiple large edits and refactorings.
UseSignatures
- List of signature features, credibility of authors...
OpenStep
- Large history of OpenStep, features, mailing list...
SteveWainstead
HelloWorld
- More examples, and ideas for larger demos.
RefactoringBrowser
VcapsProject
WikiWikiEmbryo
ForthishWikiName
- Duplication may be a problem...
ExplainDontDocument
- Margin-style of commenting and effects on coding...
EnterpriseObjectFramework
- History of framework, usages, philosophy, WebObjects, mailing lists...
PartToWholeAsWholeIsToPart
ConstructiveInterference
- More comments about "constructive"...
RationalUnifiedProcess
- Seems like list of objections...
MomentOfAwareness
- Problems with statistics, can't teach tolerance with statistics...
October 20, 1999
BusinessInterface
- EJB pattern for using interface containing only business methods...
MozillaNightlyBuild
- Browser from mozilla project (URL) for testing...
RecentRefactorings
- Too much overhead, nobody seems to like it...
ForthishWikiName
- In Forth, all printables can be used in name, could shorten WikiName...
ExplainDontDocument
- [NEW] Avoid terse/formal comments, try for short complete conversational sentences...
EricHerman
- Multiple messages about "personal" messaging (notes on "personal" pages)...
VbIsGoodForCrapProgrammers
- [NEW] How is it good? | One integrated bundle, easy to install and use | Try Delphi as an example of a better language...
UseSignatures
- [NEW] Reasons for using signatures... | Author credibility...
FridemarPache
- Multiple notes on "personal messaging"
DaveHarris
RefactorByExtractingToPage
- Leave old intact, create new version to migrate to...
RefactorWhileRespectingSignatures
- Special care to refactoring signed works, suggestions for appropriate times and ways to refactor...
MontrealPatternsGroup
StampOutFires
- [NEW] Type email in, but don't send it | More about dealing with angry email (wait 24 hours, practice on other person)...
AbsoluteBestPlan
- Building framing is quick, interior slow--difference in construction plans?
PrettyPlease
- [NEW] Be polite to people who do not argue well...
VbIsBadForNewbies
- Alternatives uncomfortable, VB fine choice for simple business programming, VB is a reality, give people ways to improve rather than LanguagePissingMatch...
ProvocativeBookTitles
- Titles for maximum interest (some rather silly)...
HtmlModeler
PrivateInterface
- Java equivalent with inner classes, source example...
TupleSpace s
TrimYourPosts
TimChambers
- updated list of touched pages
October 19, 1999
MicrosoftFrontPage
VonNeumann
MomentOfAwareness
VbIsBadForNewbies
NeilHarrison
DistributedComputing
TupleSpaces
LindaTupleSpaces
- fix URL for distributed fallacies..
UnderstandingDistributedSystems
ChicagoPatternsGroup
ExtremeProgrammingExplainedEmbraceChange
- More Amazon.com order experiences...
XunitBofAtOopsla
FridemarPache
TestRefactoringOf SoftwareCannotBeModeled
RefactorByCondensingConversation
SoftwareCannotBeModeled
- New refactored version...
SoftwareCannotBeModeledOldVersion
- Old version for comparison...
RefactoringCandidate
- Suggest date in <New> tags...
LindaTupleSpaces
- [NEW] Invention of Linda Group (URL), JavaSpaces...
IndependentlyHostedHtmlCopyOfaWikiPage (later refactored to WikiPageAsHtml)
JavaSpaces
PublicMailToFridemarPache
- Please leave public messages here...
PublicMailBox
- List of public mail pages...
PublicMailToPhilGoodwin
- Experimental public mailbox...
MeetingsAboutXp
- British Computer Society meeting 18-Oct-99, meet again in few weeks, contact...
HtmlModeler
- WebKB (URL) for similar knowledge-based engine...
RefactorByCondensingQuestionAnswerPair
OopslaNinetyNine
RefactoringWikiPages
RecentVisitors
LetsMeetAtOopsla
October 18, 1999
EvolvingSystems
WebObjects
StuartCharlton
- Personal updates, Smalltalk...
FoxForumWiki
- [NEW] Public wiki dedicated to VisualFoxPro, related software engineering, URL...
TimChambers
- turned URLs into links, added "Other Wiki Home Pages" section
XpForProducts
- [MID] If position is like customer, is XP for products same as other XP?...
RealTime
- More on payroll applicability (with reply), slow weather prediction OK...
TheEndOfMarketingAsWeKnowIt
AcceptableRefactoring
ExtractToPage
GreatestMarketingCompanyInTheWorld * Marketing types hold MS in high regard, like other brand names, book ref...
WhyRefactorWikiPages
RefactorByRenaming
VbIsBadForNewbies
- Beginners starting with GUIs, experiences typical?...
MovedTo * [NEW] Temp housekeeping markers... [deleted April 6, 2004]
RefactoringWikiPages
RecentRefactorings
- [NEW] List of recent refactorings
TypicalLittleHelp
MoreAboutHousekeeping
TypicalLittleMesses
TypicalHousekeepingTasks
- [Moved from somewhere...]
From Where
- Substitute for disabled backlink option...
WikiWikiWeb
RefactorByExtractingToPage
PeopleIndex
HtmlModeler
- Userland Frontier (URL) does similar "rendering" of the site...
WayneConrad
- Add URL Java Reference Objects
PeopleWhoRefactorWiki
JerryWeinberg
- [NEW?] Influence on software development, URLs for personal site, biography, book ordering...
XunitBofAtOopsla
- Call for meeting of people interested in *Unit...
EricHerman
StephenCheng
- Personal update, email...
ScienceItAndZenIt
- Changed resulting context...
ChangeSummaryDiscussion
- Suggestion for Summary textbox on edit page. [See http * //www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/AtTwo for an experimental Wiki...]
WhyChooseMicrosoftAndVb
- Quote from Linus Torvalds...
SilverBullet
- Lone Ranger reference, werewolves, etc...
CppUnit
- Made incremental upgrade, fixes memory leaks, namespaces, structures...
LetsMeetAtOopsla
WordPlay
- Add "(Mau Mau Starter Ching Ching Dada.)"
ExtremeProgrammingExplainedEmbraceChange * No longer pre-order item...
WebTrans
Architecture for HTML-based apps (including Wikis), Java servlet, javadoc output...
DevWiki
- [NEW] New test Wiki based on WebTrans...
WikiWikiClones
ChangeSummaryDiscussion
NameXp
- [TOP] Given that EmbraceChange has been published, the discussion is moot.
October 17, 1999
DjAdams
TheMythicalManMonth
SmalltalkasaServer
- URL for presentation on a Smalltalk server...
NoSilverBullet
- Increasing computer time, common sense of small teams...
DataMusicProject
- More information about project, domain names, example using Excel and Win32Forth...
ChacteristicsOfEvolvingSystems
- [NEW] "Please Delete this blank page"
NonCharacteristicsOfEvolvingSystems
ImagineProject
EvolvingSystems
- Split into several pages...
ExamplesOfEvolvingSystems
- [NEW] Wiki links of examples...
CharacteristicsOfEvolvingSystems
DefinitionOfEvolvingSystems
MartyHeyman
- One of founders of Symas Corporation (URL), more about company...
RecentVisitors
ExtremeProgrammingSummary
ScheduleChicken
- Also term in bowling (handicaps), used in development to preserve budget
DamianMehers
JavaWithMicrosoftCom
- More information from the author of J-Integra, URLs for examples...
DaveCleal
XpLondon
- Report from first milestone, ExcelUnit, coverage, XP comments, quote...
WayneConrad
WhyCppNeedsSpecializedXp
- [NEW] Skeptic wants examples of specialized XP...
ExtremeGuidelinesForCeePlusPlus
- Position paper on topic, summarized, skeptical...
DafyddRees
- Changed email, more links...
BertrandMeyerAndHisOpinions
- New link and title for rebuttal paper...
WikiPrivacy
PointerAndKeyboard
PatternLanguage
- Wants way to apply Alexander's book to today's communities...
ShoeKeyboard
OneMinuteWiki
- Please explain what a Wiki web is... [Ironically, the link WikiErase appears to have been deleted by the (inadvertent?) use of EditCopy]
RecentChangesOnaWikiPage
- [NEW] Easier to see if linked to a new page...
WikiWikiWebFaq
DjAdams
- [NEW] Lots of URLs (10), personal...
RecentVisitors
ImmutableObjects
PrivateInterface
PrivateInterface
GreatestMarketingCompanyInTheWorld
- Not using MBA for authority...
October 16, 1999
XpForProducts
FreeHandProcess
- Description of how Macromedia FreeHand is developed
CurtisBartley
WikiWikiWebFaq
ClientPresence
- Document is object, client has much more...
GlobalBrain
VbTeachesBadHabits
WikiWikiKudos
WikiWikiWeb
BadKeyboards
WayneConrad
ShoeKeyboard
- List of ideas, benefits...
ErgonomicKeyboardIdea
PointerAndKeyboard
TheDumbingDownOfProgramming
ExtremeProgrammingChallengeOne
- [END] Experience with incremental building of a compiler through refactoring...
ThetansAndFnords
JavaWithMicrosoftCom
- Add information about JIntegra...
WayneConrad
ClientPresence
- Avoid project lore problems through using a TestCase...
ConflictingRequirements
XpForProducts
IntrusiveDataStructures
- Add abstract from referenced URL...
PersistentPointerFactory
- Add description from URL (paged-out smart pointer class)...
ExtremeProgrammingExplainedEmbraceChange
ClassName
ExtremeProgrammingExplainedEmbraceChange
- Notified by Amazon UK of release at end of November * UK only?...
WikiNature
ThetansAndFnords
- Criticism of Meme usage, what's the difference?, comments on "love your enemy"...
ChrisCleeland
October 15, 1999
WikiWikiWeb
ConstructorDoesTheWork
- May be sign of inappropriate inheritance (rather than composition)...
NameXp
- [END] We had to call it Extreme Programming...
XpForProducts
- Clarification of "customer" in XP, conflicts are trouble...
DeleteMeWithinBrackets
- Made example into self-reference
TheMythicalManMonth
ConstructorDoesTheWork
- Disadvantage
- Can't pass parameters to COM constructors.
GuiTesting
- "This whole piece is just delicious to read."... | Cycle involving Wiki, UseCases, choreography, QA, and much more...
HtmlModeler
- [NEW] Tool (in Smalltalk) for building object model of website, generate HTML from model, frustrating to use character-based environment...
WhichHtmlEditor
ExtremeProgrammingExplainedEmbraceChange
- ISBN fixed and price added
WikiBasedHtmlEditor
- [NEW] Desired features, offline wiki ideas...
WhichHtmlEditor
JohnMcIntosh
ExtremeProgrammingExplainedEmbraceChange * Add "October 15, 1999"
KayJohansen
XpForProducts
- [NEW?] "product projects" and XP applicability...
WayneConrad
- Add URL for User Interface Hall of Shame
DanSurdu
- [NEW] Personal, Smalltalk experience...
DildarMarhas
EvolvingSystems
ThetansAndFnords
- May be GrainOfTruth, Jungian view, weaknesses, acceptance traditions...
WikiNature
XpLondon
- Moved Java/Com discussion, more about speculative development of toolkit...
ScienceItAndZenIt
- Pattern form for way of supporting argument [AntiPattern?]
ScienceItOrZenIt
GrayBoxTesting
- [NEW] "The effective combination of black box (external) and white box (internal or unit) testing.", XP ensures right grayness...
RickHansen
WikiWikiSandbox
- More playing with links...
RecentVisitors
DutchXpCommunity
PublicServletHosts
- [Large diffs, unknown extent]
MetaObjectProtocol
- [MID] Making interpreter/compiler available in program (example)...
ConstructorDoesTheWork
- Reorganized, story of bad usage of idiom...
RogerLipscombe
FakeTheSideEffects
- Diagram showing faking both link and external interface...
AlternativeMarkupsForWiki
- [NEW] Setext (URL) is interesting...
RebolLanguage
- Interesting language outside the mainstream, comments on standardization...
GregWilkins
- [NEW] "Aussie founder of http * //www.mortbay.com "
RichardDrake
DionHinchcliffe
ScottTomilson
JavaWithMicrosoftCom
- Three packages related to COM/ActiveX, with URLs...
LetsMeetAtOopsla
- Three more names interested...
XpForLanguages
- [NEW?] Use in development of programming languages, see the challenges...
MarnixKlooster
XpForSolutions
- [NEW] Solution for specific problem (like C3)...
XpModes
- [NEW] For languages, products, and solutions...
FormalSystems
StoryIdea
- [NEW] Project experience of planning using UserStories, conflict of implementation vs. completion of stories...
StoryIdeas
GermanXpCommunity
OopslaNinetyNine
RichardEmerson
DesignByContract
ToolsAndMaterialsMetaphor
- Added reference to the JWAM-framework
NameXp
- New name suggested- "eXcellence Programming"
October 14, 1999
MarkoSchulz
GreatestMarketingCompanyInTheWorld
- Strategy vs luck, marketing definitions...
VbIsBadForNewbies
- Multiple types of GUI builders for Python | Why should beginners focus on GUI?
IdealTime
LetsMeetAtOopsla
WikiLikeWysiwyg
- [NEW] suggestions for formatting, cost of plain vanilla text...
ConstructorDoesTheWork
- Advantage and disadvantages, problems in thread class, inheritance hierarchies, DelphiLanguage features...
VikramSridharan
DesignByContract
- "Two important problems in the application of design by contract"...
EddieEdwards
DesignStyleAndCreativityBookList
WikiDownload
TextFormattingRules
- Tab shortcuts don't work, why not default "I can't type tabs"?...
DesignFest
- [NEW?] description, URL for report from early fest...
InstantWiki
- More suggestions for Wysiwyg Wiki...
WayneConrad
- More external links [multiple edits]...
LotusNotes
- Replication scheme details, not claimed to be OO, not relational DB...
GreatestMarketingCompanyInTheWorld * Right moves at right time is marketing...
WhyWysiwygWiki
- Content is reason for Wiki, active community tough to build, intranet Wiki advantages/problems...
CapedConsultant
- "Mr West" -> "Winston Wolf"
EvolvingSystems
- Allows reclassification of objects, Squeak, interaction necessary, increasing complexity...
RebolLanguage
- [NEW?] Reminds of smalltalk and lisp...
SimonMichael
ChangeSummaryDiscussion
- Another fan comments | guilt for not summarizing...
ZopeApplicationServer
JoyfulWiki
- [NEW] Content pertaining to wikis, Zope, and others, based on modified AtisWiki...
WikiEssence
HieraticLanguage
- "Those languages in which simple concepts cannot be expressed with austerity and readability", other definitions, test * can a child learn it?... | dictionary definitions...
EmacsVsVi
- Bring back WordStar key-diamond!... | Emacs has modes...
ZopeDoesWiki
WikiWikiClones
ThrowawayObject
ChangesOnWikiClones
ChangeSummary
- [Thanks for the changes. * -]
FormalSystem
ContinuousBooting * URL for paper discussing bootstrapping issues...
NeoClassTalk
WelcomeVisitors
- Deleted recent minor edits...
MetaObjectProtocol
RecentVisitors
OpenImplementation
TooScaryToReplace
- [NEW] Management scared, waste of time in workarounds...
PaulBennett
JoinCapitalizedWords
- Some kind of escape character useful...
AlanFrancis
PanasonicOwl
- [NEW] "Office Workstations Ltd." department description...
XpEdinburgh
- [NEW] Team using XP/Java...
ExtremeProgrammingProjects * Add
XpEdinburgh
LifeTech
- Benefits of frequent delivery, communication...
LivingInaMonument
- Extensibility of Linux comes at cost of learning, other systems fairly intuitive, Mac comments...
ChryslerComprehensiveCompensation
VbIsBadForNewbies
- If Microsoft is making bad tools, then we need to become familiar with good, easy alternatives.
- Who has experience in working with Newbies and something other than VB?
RealTime
- Definitions pasted in from RealTimeFAQ
November 4, 1999
EnhancingJunit
- A derivative version with some enhancements is mentioned.
CategoryHistorical
See