[oak perl] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 13

[George Woolley]

The latest newsletter is on our site at
   http://oakland.pm.org/oreilly/2003/newsletter_20030813.txt
should you wish to look at it.

Below are snips of two things that caught my eye.

George


Snips from August 13, 2003 Newsletter
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Open Source
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***Five Lessons You Should Learn from Extreme Programming
Extreme Programming (XP) is yet another popular idea gaining press. It
adapts the best ideas from the past decades of software development.
Whether or not you adopt XP, it's worth considering what XP teaches.
chromatic, author of "Extreme Programming Pocket Guide," offers five
lessons you should learn from Extreme Programming.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/31/extremeprogramming.html?CMP=NLC
-Q87B09432775

Extreme Programming Pocket Guide
Order Number: 4850
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/extprogpg/index.html

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Fun Stuff
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***Take the Geek Test
http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

[ The test classifies me as a Geek.
But alas according to "them",
there are 6 higher levels of Geekiness.
I particularly enjoy that they don't bother
to list a category for a person
who is not a geek and doesn't have geek tendancies.]