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Ed Foster is dead–A great loss for mass-market computing
Submitted by kaner on Tue, 29/07/2008 - 10:19.Ed Foster just died.Ed was one of the great journalists of Silicon Valley. He listened. He read. He asked probing questions. He changed his mind when the evidence proved him wrong. He understood the computer and information industries from (at least) a dozen perspectives. And he could explain their perspectives to each other.Ed was part [...]
Lessons Learned in Agile Development
Submitted by bret on Tue, 29/07/2008 - 21:03. This begins a series of short essays on Agile development. I am writing these for several reasons. We are using many Agile methods in the development of Watir. We are using such methods as continuous integration and emergent architecture...
Overflowing Linear Programming
Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Wed, 30/07/2008 - 02:35.Linear programming problems are usually solved using the simplex algorithm. While it is easy to encode a constraint system of linear equalities and inequalities as a Parameterized Unit Test for Pex, there is currently no way to tell Pex that we want test inputs that are “minimal” according to a custom objective function. However, Pex can still generate *surprising* feasible solutions.