A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an ‘intellectual’ – find out how he feels about astrology.

—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 [...]