Manuel Klimek

Today somebody posted a very interesting comment on my recent article about my experience with XP. He (or she) linked to an article called Extreme Deprogramming. The comment's author said it was "The most insightful take on XP", in his opinion. Well, the article is very entertaining indeed, so first of all I recommend that [...]

The first time I heard about ruby was at University about eight years ago when most of ruby's documentation was Japanese. Back than it was hard to find a good introduction to ruby and since I favor curly bracket languages for aesthetic reasons I decided to stick with perl.
Last week I gave ruby a new [...]

The first time I heard of Extreme Programming was during my University days. We didn't really learn anything more sophisticated than the Waterfall model, so I was totally unprepared. Since I had no practical experience in programming teams with more than two persons, I didn't understand the problems of the Waterfall model or even of [...]

I just read Paul's article about processes. And while I begin to realize that I'm already meta-blogging I totally agree with Paul that processes are nothing else than yet another tool.
So let's talk about tools. Imagine little Bob the builder. Bob wants to build a nice doghouse for his beloved puppy Rocky. Bob realizes that [...]

Mayhap the sea shines a dazzling blue the day you drown. Your arms get weaker with every struggling move, splashing salty spume into your burned face while the sun mercilessly grins down at your pathetic attempts to get a grip on the ever changing faces of the fluid. Fate played a little prank today, [...]

From: dave.productmanager@yasco.com
To: karl.developer@yasco.com
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2006 10:59:22 -0300
Subject: CustomerComany Inc.
Hey Karl,
we have a request from a customer that wants to place an order of some million dollars for our Xeepid. The customer now needs to know if it can fly. Can it?
Dave
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From: karl.developer@yasco.com
To: dave.productmanager@yasco.com
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2006 10:59:26 -0300
Subject: Re: CustomerComany Inc.
Of course [...]