Interesting Bits

A new weblog at jbrains.info

I would like to announce a new weblog, located at jbrains.info. (I am working to fix the ugly URL.) I will not be adding more entries to this weblog, although the new one will always have a reference to the old one. (Well, for now.)

If you're subscribing by RSS, then please point your feedreader to the new feed. The icon is on our site. When we fix the URL, we'll broadcast that in another weblog entry.

Thank you to all my faithful readers. Now that I have nicer weblog software, I promise to write more.

The World's Shortest Article on Behavior-Driven Development

Here it is.

What is Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)?

It is Test-Driven Development (TDD) practiced correctly; nothing more.

XP Project Room at TorCamp 2.0

Deb Hartmann suggested we run an XP Project Room at TorCamp 2.0 in downtown Toronto this past weekend, and we did. As usual, Deb turned the event into something far better for the visual learner, including putting up a big task board and excerpts from extremeprogramming.org's articles on XP. As usual, the codebase didn't advance too much, but one pair did try to ship a story. Unfortunately, they misunderstood the meaning of one part of their Customer Test, so I (the Customer) probably won't be able to accept it. I suppose if I'd been more available, we could have avoided the problem.

I'd like to thank everyone who involved themselves in this event, and I look forward to doing it again in Montreal as part of XP Day.

JUnit Recipes penetrates another key market

Dolce, pictured here, has rated JUnit Recipes in the top 3 most comfortable books on which to sleep and in the top 5 most fun books to swipe at. Considering that puts Recipes ahead of Refactoring (hardcover books always suffer in these categories), I'm quite satisfied.