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Class Room Training
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 Object
Mentor Inc. is sponsoring a 5 day class
featuring Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Ron Jeffries, and Robert Martin. It takes place February 19-23 and June 4-8
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XPeditionstraining
der XP-Usergroup Hamburg. Unser zweitägiger XP - Workshop
vom 19.-20. April 2001. |
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Industrial
Logic offers a workshop in Portugal May 28 - June 1, 2001, in San Francisco July 16 - 20, 2001, and in New
York City September 10 - 14, 2001 |
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Web Sites
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The
Portland Pattern Repository hosted by Ward Cunningham. A lively free wheeling discussion group. Ask questions
and get answers. All points of view are well represented here. Information and experiences using XP from several
projects. |
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XProgramming.com
hosted by Ron Jeffries. Articles by Ron and others. Lessons learned from the C3 project, Q&A and more. |
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XP
Developer a wiki style discussion group. The discussions are about how to actually do XP. Find out about the
Extreme Tuesday Club which meets in London. |
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Laurie
Williams is researching pair programming at the University of Utah. She has conducted
a survey of professional programmers who
have experience working in pairs. |
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Willam
Wake has written many good articles targeted at understanding specific XP topics. |
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Martin
Fowler has created a web site for information about refactoring including
updates to his book. |
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Jim
Highsmith talks about XP in an article at e-business application delivery. |
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RoleModel
Software has an eXtreme Programming Software Studio(tm) and an apprenticeship program. |
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Yonat
Sharon has a general OO site with some information about XP. |
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Conferences
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OT2001
will host some XP disussions this year. April 2-4 in Oxford, England |
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A
two-day conference all about eXtreme Programming will be held in Stockholm 24 - 25 April, 2001 |
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XP2001
the International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering 21 - 23 May,
2001 in Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy |
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XP
Universe has been announced! July 23-25 in Raleigh, North Carolina. |
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People
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An excellent source of information
are the people who have
already been learning about XP. |
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There is the Michigan
eXtreme Programming Enthusiasts. The next meeting is February 15. |
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There is XP
Denver for the Colorado Front Range. With members from Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver,
and Colorado Springs. |
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There is a Hamburg
XP user's group. |
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The eXtreme
Tuesday Club meets in London (UK). |
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There is an XP
User's Group starting in Phoenix, Arizona |
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Group Discussion |
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ObjectMentor
Inc. has set up an XP mailing list for us at
eGroups.com. |
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There is now a usenet news
group comp. software. extreme-programming |
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Books
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Extreme
Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Kent Beck explains the concepts and philosophy behind extreme programming.
This book teaches what and why but not how. |
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Refactoring
Improving the Design of Existing Code. Martin Fowler writes the first authoritative volume on refactoring.
Presented as patterns. There are plenty of examples in Java. This book teaches you how to refactor and why. |
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Extreme
Programming Installed. By Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson, and Ann Anderson. This book covers specific XP practices
in finer detail than Expreme Programming Explained. This book teaches how to program XP style. |
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Planning
Extreme Programming by Kent Beck, and Martin Fowler. This book presents the latest thoughts on how to plan
software in a rapid delivery environment. This book teaches how to run an XP project. |
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Smalltalk
Best Practice Patterns. Kent Beck provides us with patterns for writing good Smalltalk code. Examples are provided
in Smalltalk. This book is recommended as a coding standard for Smalltalk projects.
It can be used as-is. |
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