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| bio | website | pauldwaite.co.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | May 8 at 8:53 | |
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Self-employed web developer (and aspiring programmer) from Croydon.
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Dec 27 |
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What are some well-written articles/books/etc. on API design approaches? See also programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/66735 |
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Dec 20 |
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What to do when a sprint is finished early? Same thing you do when your code's compiling: xkcd.com/303 |
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Oct 25 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Sep 22 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 31 |
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How to program for constraints/rules @Gaurav: modelling cards as objects sounds like a fine way to treat the cards themselves, but you’re quite right that that doesn’t complete the job of modelling a card game. A card game is a separate thing from the cards used to play it (hence playing cards are used to play lots of different games). |
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Mar 11 |
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I'm a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS? @MartinGeisler: ah, cool, I’ll take a look at that. I’ve never actually used Git, but there are definitely times with Mercurial when I’ve made accidental or disorganised commits and would like to clean them up a bit. |
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Mar 11 |
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I'm a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS? @Benjol: sure, that was my understanding too. |
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Mar 4 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Feb 21 |
accepted | Are there any tools that integrate wireframes and designs with component and bugs lists? |
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Feb 15 |
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What are some well-written articles/books/etc. on API design approaches? Sure, that counts — and you’re entirely right, it’s a great book. |
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Feb 15 |
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Are there any tools that integrate wireframes and designs with component and bugs lists? added 48 characters in body |
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Feb 15 |
accepted | What are some well-written articles/books/etc. on API design approaches? |
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Feb 15 |
answered | What are some well-written articles/books/etc. on API design approaches? |
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Feb 15 |
accepted | Are there any books that teach techniques for effective pair programming? |
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Feb 15 |
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Is there a book I can read to get up to speed with Agile development? @ThomasOwens: aha, it is not really, good spot. |
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Feb 15 |
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Is there a book I can read to get up to speed with Agile development? “It is unfortunately very typical that managers brag about their SDLC being agile this and agile that, while in fact it is... cowboy coding on the loose.” — Totally. I swear some project managers saw the bit about “we welcome late changes in requirements” and thought “Great! We don’t have to design anything! Just give the developers a one-sentence description and a timebox of half an hour to develop it!” |
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Feb 15 |
asked | Is there a book I can read to get up to speed with Agile development? |
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Feb 13 |
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Why can't we capture the design of software more effectively? I’ve no idea on the whys of this issue, but it’s the subject of Fred Brooks’ ‘The Design of Design’. (Apologies if you’re already familiar.) He discusses examples from programming and architecture. He particularly notes that capturing rationales (for both the design, and rejected alternate designs) is really useful, and not well-served by current tools. |
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Feb 13 |
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Are there any tools that integrate wireframes and designs with component and bugs lists? That’s sounding pretty good, nice one. |
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Feb 12 |
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Are there any tools that integrate wireframes and designs with component and bugs lists? edited title |
