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January 01, 2005

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Mailing Lists in Summer Time

Oh man! It's a nightmare to send an e-mail to a classical mailing list on summer time. Why? Because you get flooded by tens of "Out of Office" replies. Can't you guys be kind enough to disable or cancel your subscriptions during your vacation periods? I know most of us do however it's a pain to receive these same message that even tend to be in different languages. Or, there's another option, don't start your automatic reply in the first place. Or, don't use your office e-mail address for you mailing list activities. Is a little respect too much to ask? Peace,

Extreme Virtual Pair Programming

Pair programming... I'm not sure how many of us have already experienced the pair programming. For my part, I've only done it during a coaching and not as an activity per se. I'm not a great believer in its productivity in theory. Coaching is necessary and programming in pair during the coaching activity is surely valuable to the junior developers however, in this case, the knowledge flows only one way. Anyway, have a look at this document: http://rockfish-cs.cs.unc.edu/pubs/TR04-008.pdf . That's about " Extreme Virtual Pair Programming ". I can see a few benefits of it during remote coaching.

Resign Patterns

We all know about the design patters, don't we? Thanks to the Gang of Four (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vissides), they became ubiquitous in the software development industry. The simplicity and the power of Java gave speed to their being omnipresent. The Gang of Four book ( Design patterns ) must be the most popular book after The Lord of the Rings. I contributed to the "design patterns mania" in the past, when it wasn't a mania yet. I studied them and I followed discussion groups in order to see other people's opinions about and experiences with them. As in every successful technological idea/concept/tool, it came a time when we started to exaggerate. With the patterns being the golden hammer in our hands, anything looked like nails to us. We ended up by overusing them or trying to fit them into places where there was no real need for. We now have people who are against the idea of even talking about them because they're afraid of bei...

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