Walt Mankowski on Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:08:04 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:09:38PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > The last time we met for a reading group discussion was in January, when > a few of us gathered at the Nodding Head to talk about 'Extreme Programming > Explained'. > > Discussing possible followup books, we decided on 'The Pragmatic Programmer' > by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. For those people weren't interested in > Extreme Programming because they don't do much "professional team > programming", consider flipping through this book at Borders or B&N. > > While many of the topics covered here seem deceptively obvious, there are > a lot of good suggestions and nuggets of wisdom covered in these pages. Many of them, at least in the first chapter, seemed so deceptively obvious that I'm a little surprised that Amazon hasn't applied for a patent on them. Examples: "Think! About Your Work", "Remember the Big Picture", and "Make it Easy to Reuse". Admitedly I haven't gotten very far yet, and Adam assures me it gets better. > The next 'reading group' meeting would be Monday, March 13th. Since this > is creeping up fast, someone suggested moving the meeting two weeks to > Monday, March 27th: I can't make March 13th. Don't yet whether I can make the 27th. > Z. > > PS: Read anything good and at least mildly related to Perl recently? > Tell us about it! Sorry, just TCL and Scheme lately. :-) **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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