There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?

—Lazarus Long


Archive for June, 2003

Hacking and Refactoring

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

In 2001, there was a history-making conference of software-engineering
thinkers in Snowbird, Colorado. The product of that meeting was a remarkable
document called the Agile Manifesto,
a call to overturn many of the assumptions of traditional software development.
I was invited to be at Snowbird, but couldn’t make it.
Ever since, though, I’ve been sensing a growing convergence between
agile [...]