Eric S. Raymond's WeblogDiscovering the ObviousHacking and Refactoring- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The open-source movement and agile programming may be converging. While reading Martin Fowler's excellent book "Refactoring", I realized development by refactoring is a sharp description of the normal style of open-source hackers. In this essay (which Martin Fowler and Kent Beck and I discussed in draft) I explore the connection further. (From Eric S. Raymond's Weblog)http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=5342 |