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As of today: The Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan signed - Jens-Christian Fischer for InVisible GmbH Technorati Tags: agile, manifesto, work

The first meeting of the swiss Ruby Users Group (and/or zurich.rb) is next thursday, 28.9.2006 at 19:00 in Restaurant Reithalle near the main train station in Zurich. (see details) So far we have 11 people coming, if you are interested in joining, please send me an email, so I can update the reservation at the restaurant. Technorati Tags: zurich.rb, swissrug, zurich

Yesterday was one of these days where nothing seemed to happen. Actually a lot happened. I visited my friend Florian in hospital. After a brief stint in a recovery clinic he’s now back in hospital where he’s head was drained of excessive water. He slept while I was there, and I don’t think he realised that I was in the room, even though he briefly looked at me. Humans are so fragile. ...

I’m sitting and watching an amazing screencast that shows, how Ruby Quiz 84 (computing and printing Pascals Triangle) is solved, using a test driven development approach. Not only is it a good show of how TDD works, but it also shows the power of TextMate (THE editor on Mac OS X) but also the beauty of Ruby code. It’s long (about an hour), but worth watching! Technorati Tags: textmate, ruby, testing

Am 3.11 findet in Frankfurt die rails-konferenz.de statt. Ich werde dort sein und einen Vortrag uber “Extreme Testing - oder wie ich lernte aufzuhoren mich zu sorgen und Änderungen zu lieben” halten in dem ich aufzeige, dass automatisches Testen weit mehr ist, als nur ab und zu ein die UnitTests ablaufen zu lassen. Ich wurde mich freuen, einige von euch dort zu sehen. Technorati Tags: conference, rails-konferenz.de, rails

Maybe I’m going to go to the german Rails conference in Frankfurt in the beginning of November. I just looked at the prices for the flight from Zurich to Frankfurt and saw theses quotes for the return flight: The world is coming to an end… Technorati Tags: conference, flying, rails, swiss