DafyddRees

- Last edited February 7, 2003

The first rule of the extreme Tuesday Club is don't talk about the eXtreme Tuesday Club. The second rule is _do_not_ talk about the eXtreme Tuesday Club...

What's Up

In November I left <large-anonymous-company> to go to work on an XP project at Wireless Data Services in Poole.
I'm still doing Java, but these days I'm also doing Visual C++.
In the past, I've commented here that I'd like to learn Smalltalk properly. After seeing AndyBowerAndHisAmazingRefactoringDog? at XPDay2?, It's become more important to me.

Some time ago, I wrote an article called "XP Demystified". I found it quite difficult to condense XP down to less than 3,000 words. (See XpInTheNews)

Background

I've been a student of OOP and OOD for the last six years, and have become a big fan of many Smalltalk spin-offs (CRC-based design, patterns like MVC, JavaUnit?, XP, HotDraw?, frameworks /a la Johnson...) I like the way they emphasize good cruftsmanship over blind faith in bleeding-edge technology. I wish that more people saw the lasting value of these things.

In a former life, I did a PhD that had the title "An Algebraic Theory of Software Interfaces", but please don't hold that against me. These days I'm a reformed subject: I listen, test, code and refactor. I've stopped selling things...

More about me can be found at www.dafydd.net

Thoughts, articles and book references welcome.

--- GSM says hello...

- Last edited February 7, 2003

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