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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Strive for Excellence I call the range between adequacy and mastery excellence. This is the hardest state to identify, because it’s enormously wide. If mediocrity is the result of no ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

The team was also upset because he had broken teamwork rules in acting unilaterally. The “velocity increase” would only have been sustainable if at least one member of the team ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Multinationalization Ruby is a citizen of the world, and the world speaks many languages and uses many different sets of characters doing it. Older Rubies ignores this—to them, strings were ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Agile is Ongoing Interaction Specifying a software system precisely is fundamentally impossible, because the activity of software development, and the interaction of users with the software, is by its nature ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

bt: Mostly, I’ve learned that I don’t know very much at all. But the best experience of writing this book has been meeting all of the cool people. Talking to ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Create a Safe Place The first step is to create a safe container for the individuals working on the team. To take on new working practices, your team needs to ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

We’ll replace that test and start by writing the test that seems simplest to me—incrementing the score for player one. Let’s call scorePlayerOnePoint once, and verify that the new score ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

What Is the iPad’s Greatest Shortcoming? Alan Oppenheimer: “No multitasking.” Alan Smithee: “I was surprised by the lack of a camera. Flash? A colleague said, ‘Doesn’t even support Flash? Duuuuude, ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Enter the Mikado Method Mikado is a pick-up sticks game originating in Europe. In 1936 it was brought from Hungary to the USA and was mostly called pick-up sticks. Probably ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

find the cause, fix the problem. It seems easy, doesn’t it? Yet the steps aren’t always easy to follow. Easily Reproduce The Problem If you can’t reproduce the problem easily, ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Displaying Any Image Since there are 256 tiles available, drawing an image is straightforward if it uses 256 or fewer tiles. If the image is small, say 128x128 pixels, then ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Scala for the Intrigued Sensible Typing and Optional Items by Venkat Subramaniam In this second installment of this series on the Scala programming language, Venkat shows how Scala’s static typing ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Test Abstraction Unit tests, particularly those created as a virtue of doing test-driven development (TDD), must document the essence of what’s going on: What data is being created for purposes ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Costs and Limitations of TDD As with any new technique worth adopting, TDD incurs a learning curve overhead. You’ve already seen the three simple rules of TDD—that’s really all there ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

But We Already Paid For It If your organization has invested significant money in an agile PM tool, we’re not telling you to discard it (not yet, at least). Before ...
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