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• Join the anti-IF campaign: http://www.antiifcampaign.com
• I've joined Industrial Logic to help with their consulting and training practice.
• Kevin Rutherford and I are working on Refactoring in Ruby.
• The oozinoz.com web site associated with Design Patterns in Java is now at oozinoz.xp123.com. You can download the code there.
• There are new pictures in the Room and Charts Gallery (Feb. '09)
• Design Patterns in Java: The late Steve Metsker & I have updated his earlier Design Patterns Java Workbook and Design Patterns in C#. This new book is more of a standalone text than either of those, and is still full of exercises to develop and test your understanding of Gamma et al.'s classic patterns. Reviews at Amazon, JavaRanch, Java Posse (podcast).

XPlorations - Most Recent

• User Story Examples (April, '09)
• Declan Whelan Interview (March, '09)
• Lisamarie Babik Interview (March, '09)
• Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (updated with comments from Kent Beck, Dec. '06)
• Slicing Functionality: Alternate Paths (with Joseph Leddy and Kent Beck)
• Sudoku Solver (TDD)
• Room and Charts Gallery (updated)
• Agile Project Management XP Style (updated)
• Refactoring Demo Screencast
• Sufficient Completeness and Testing
• Example-Based Specification Tests - Guidelines
• Twenty Ways to Split Stories

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• Scrum from Hell
• Test-First Challenge
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• Twenty Ways to Split Stories

Conferences

• Agile '09. Chicago, IL. Aug. 24-28, 2009.
• NASAGA '09. Manchester, NH. Oct. 7-10, 2009.

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