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Yesterday, December 16th 2007, at 16:16:16 stacktrace.it has officially gone live. stacktrace.it is an e-zine, done by geeks for geeks, where I'm taking care of the "Software Engineering" category (hence you can expect to find a prevalence of agile and XP themes).

About changing the standup meeting in a radical way to make it become more effective.

A few days ago I attended a webinar from Agitar on JUnitFactory, that is an experimental test-generation service intended mainly for universities and research institutions. The aim of the service is to generate unit tests automatically starting from the code that requires to be tested. To keep the story short: unit tests retrofitting for legacy code. In this post I summarize my feedback and my doubts, especially coming from a TDD perspective.

Being agile doesn't mean to be silly. Therefore, sometimes Joel is right, but only to the extent where he doesn't imply that if you are agile you have to do whatever is crazy.

Impressions from the Greater Toronto Software Symposium (No Fluff, Just Stuff tour).

Is there a relationship between blood flow in certain brain sectors and the way how we handle complex problems more or less efficiently?

The very strange way through which Steve Yegge has just set me free.

qixweb has finally its home page

A couple of days ago June Kim has posted in the XP mailing list a message about Appreciative Inquiry with 400 people I gave a...

Experiences of multiple XP teams sharing the same space.

Hugo Garcia is running an interesting experiment in free software development with the collaboration of XP mailing list.

About published steps of my TDD live demo

Good reasons and a couple of examples in favour of choosing ruby for you everyday tasks apart from programming.

Little things to do to bring ruby in your life, helping solving everyday problems, saving time and having fun.

My extended feedback about the 2nd Italian Agile Day held on Dec. 16th 2005

Jim Freeze has an interesting post about writing DSLs in ruby. Check What is a DSL? - O'Reilly Ruby: The third time around, after the...

I'm not really convinced that TDD can be performed as it is known without relying on OO paradigm. Here's my take on that.

Naresh Jain's Weblog : Running Fitnesse inside the container Simple and easy to follow steps to run Fitnesse inside the container: We want the FitServer...

How much closure can we gain? How much future extension can we foresee? How much does it cost? Some thoughts about design and flexus points where to extend the behaviour provided by the framework.

Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP, by Eric Kidd Eric Kidd makes a few fair and thoughtful points about ruby and lisp. LISP is a...

How widespread is lean manufacturing adoption in Italy? Not much, it seems. And there's always the gap between theory and practice.

John Vlissides died on 24th November 2005

About Jon Voight's acting the part of Pope John Paul II

About the 2nd Italian Agile Day

Thoughts about recurring patterns that emerge in writing acceptance tests.