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  1. New article posted: Risk And Reward In Development Projects http://bit.ly/5GIlqV
  2. Zuhlke is hosting a special XtC event next Tuesday, Luke Hohmann's Innovation Games. See http://bit.ly/4nPMxa
  3. There are still places at XP Day London 2009. Register here http://booking.xpday.org/re...
  4. Here is the almost-but-not-quite-final programme for XP Day London 2008 http://xpday.org/programme
  5. @fausboll Or rather: people who know what they are doing do what Agile tells you to do without being told.
  6. XP Day London committee meeting last night. First cut at the programmed session looks quite interesting. Register here http://bit.ly/23sfaa
  7. @GeePawHill The prototypical British bedsit isn't even an apartment: communal dining room and bathroom. These days bedsit~=studio apt
  8. I note with interest that Hungarian keyboards are the first I've seen with '0' in the sensible place: to the left of '1'
  9. I can now play against GnuGo on my Touch Pro 2 (thanks to http://vieka.com/gnugo/). The commute will no longer be wasted time.
  10. @GeePawHill season 1 of that kind of show always is clunky—lots of exposition of the ostensive subject. Later: high-class soap, very smooth
  11. @flowchainsensei For Smalltalk to have had a demise would mean that it is dead, which it isn't. Primed for a comeback, I'd almost say.
  12. @flowchainsensei I'm guessing that you know that the answer is "about 40 year ago" :)
  13. @softqual @GeePawHill I once filled an entire CD (remember those?) with different version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for my ex
  14. @silvercatalyst I'm missing some context. What did you think was the opposite?
  15. @cammerman Did not Alan Kay say that when he invented the term "object oriented" he did not have C++ in mind? (or something like that)
  16. @agilemanager borrowing to invest in improving capabilities is fine. Taking on tech. debt feels like borrowing to cover your running costs.
  17. @cammerman "static" (a la Java) also a sign of lack of intestinal fortitude by language designers: the classes are not regular objects
  18. @ComputerWeekly I'm in the UK and I write an IT blog.
  19. @KentBeck Amateurs borrow, professionals steal. Which list?
  20. @markhneedham @MarkDalgarno regular debt is expensive but can be a useful tool. Technical debt is certainly expensive, can it be useful?