Logistik für Architekten

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Book review: "FIT for Developing Software"

By Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham (yes, the c2-guy and wiki-inventor), Prentice Hall 2005. A very convincing book - if you don't yet know or use the FIT acceptance testing framework (plus its comanion FITNESSE, the acceptance-testing-wiki), this book will surely motivate you to give those two a try! If you never had the opportunity to use FIT in a real project - that'l surely change. The book, brilliantly structured, well written, carefully edited, contains starting points for many projects to come. Five stars!

My next quest will be the evaluation of the different FIT implementations - as a few of my current projects are non-Java - but that'll be covered in a future posting.

Revival: Nethack: Old game, still fun

As the Apple Mac I'm curently using is a real *ix machine, reminding me of my prior life - when that operating system was still in its infancies. Back then we worked unmanly hours - in the quest of fulfilling both our diploma thesis and our wish to explore the unknown... Nethack was the game of choice in those days - played by numerous players within the computer science departement of the RWTH Aachen. This game had two positive aspects: First it tought me the vocabulary needed to understand Harry Potter in his native tongue (otherwise I would have failed to understand potions, spells and other wizard's speak) and second it was available on every machine I used since then.

Only recently I met the unchallenged champions of the game (aka suru) and found out that the famous blogger Eric S. Raymond authored the Nethack manual... and I still did never manage to find that Amulet of Yendor. Have fun - but be warned: Once you manage to decently play the game, you'll probably never be the same gamer again.