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swombat
on Feb 4, 2009
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"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck
Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming, one of the fathers of Test-Driven-Design and a bunch of other agile practices. Quite well known amongst most programmer circles.
More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck
hboon
on Feb 4, 2009
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He also co-wrote JUnit and wrote SUnit which spawned the many other counterparts in other languages and wrote one of the better Smalltalk books.
hboon
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And that book is Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns (
http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/...
). Not anything like the design patterns book in case anyone wonders, and it's a good read even if you don't do Smalltalk.
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More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck