Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

TAMPA, FLA. — As corporations struggle to complete application development projects on time, within budget and without lots of buggy code, they’re taking a closer look at new development methods, such ...

eXtreme .NET combines the benefits of extreme programming with those of .NET. The author delves into pair programming, spiking, problem breakdown, testing, refactoring, and more. eXtreme .NET: ...

Simple Talk is Red Gate’s journal for SQL Server and .NET developers. (Red Gate make SQL Server and .NET tools, such as SQL Data Compare and various .NET profilers). So anyway, I just published a kind ...

Oftentimes, the little things can make the biggest difference. Consider some of the tenets of a new programming approach: keep the code simple, review it frequently, test early and often, and work a ...

Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology that makes coding the primary activity. By promoting values such as simplicity and feedback, XP allows Java programmers to incrementally ...

When going to school last year, one of my professors introduced me to eXtreme Programming, a series of practices designed to make software development Better™. One of those practices is Test First ...

Some time ago, I wrote about the general problem of misconceptions about Extreme Programming. Now I'd like to tackle a specific misconception – the idea that Extreme Programming (XP) projects begin ...

Chrysler's software was a mess. Back in 1996, the company's programmers had been frantically working on a new payroll system, but still couldn't solve many problems. This was their third attempt at a ...

Mansour Raad had a big problem. His start-up firm, DiscoverCast, was developing collision-detection software for the airline industry-mistakes in the code could cost lives. But money dried up after a ...