August 2008 - Posts

• Summer of Books

  I'm going on some long needed (and hard earned) vacation. I won't be blogging again for about one month (so this will likely be my only entry for July). I've got a lot of REALLY GREAT and interesting books to try and catch up on. I hope to... Posted Aug 10 2008, 01:20 AM by Brad Appleton's ACME Blog Filed under: Agile, Books

• Assigning Code Ownership-Policy Ownership

  Jurgen Appelo has an interesting article on StickyMinds entitled " Code Ownership Re-Visited " Jurgen prefers the term "artifact assignment" rather than "code ownership" and explains there are 4 methods of artifact assignment... Posted Aug 06 2008, 02:13 AM by Brad Appleton's ACME Blog Filed under: Code-Mgmt

• Four Rules for Simple Codelines

  Some of you may be aware of Kent Beck's Four Rules of Simple Code that state simple code: Correctly runs (and passes) all the tests Contains no duplication ( OnceAndOnlyOnce and The DRY Principle ) Clearly expresses all the ideas/intentions we needed... Posted Aug 04 2008, 01:20 PM by Brad Appleton's ACME Blog Filed under: Agile, Version-Control, Build-Mgmt