Oh nonsense. We use XP and I can assure you that its not a conspiracy. Honest! Thats just propoganda put out by bourgeious neo-imperialist running-dog pig capitalist roaders (who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes).
We like XP so much we use what I like to term 2XP - or double XP. Like normal XP 2XP involves 40 hour weeks, only we figure if you can get a lot done in one 40hour week, imagine how much you can get done in 2! So we have 2 40hour weeks every 7 days. Instead of wasting 2 programmers on pair programming, with one coding and one watching, we have one programmer fulling both the watching and the programming role. (Now whenever my boss asks me why Im just watching the screen and not doing anything I can reply: "Im doing XP!") Seriously though, I dont think I could stand using a method other than XP. It would be soooo inefficient and slow, and troublesome, and error prone. How did people survive before XP???? -----Original Message----- From: Galbreath, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 03:31 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: XP (and not the Microsoft kind) XP is a Communist conspiracy. -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Rowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:01 PM A bit of off-topic, but it's Friday, so there :) Today I read an new article on IBM developerWorks on eXtreme Programming, in which the author pretty much sorts the wheat from the chaff in explaining XP, and I am very interested. I'd avoided XP in the past because all the FUD that surrounds it made it difficult for me to determine exactly what it was and what it involved without spending a significant amount of time researching it (time is money!). Now I am curious as to who is using XP and how true it is to it's promise of increased collaboration, increased productivity and more importantly increased project success rate. Being unedjumucated, I have found it difficult in the past dealing with projects in the various ways I have experienced. I've not had a great time all in all, with too many horror stories for someone with only 4 years professional experience. I've found myself asking 'why?' quite a lot, and I've always wondered if there was a better way. This also has a lot to do with why I operate as a one man band, and generally try to avoid 'complicated' development. If anyone has any views on XP or any real world world experience with it, I'd love to hear about it. It appears that XP is being more widely adopted these days, with JUnit and various other tools available that support the XP processes. The article is here, for anyone interested: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-xp0813/?n-j-8152 -- Regards ------------------------------------------- Cliff Rowley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer | www.doctype.co.uk +44 (0) 1206 514263 | www.cliffrowley.com ------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
