Monthly Archives: November 2008

Data types in Slim

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

After an initial introduction video, one on comparaison operators, Bob Martin has now a video on Data Types in Slim, his Fit replacement in Fitnesse. Data types in Slim are simple. They can only be Strings and Lists, though it … Continue reading →

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Comparaison operators in Slim for Fitnesse

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Now that the release of Slim is done, Bob Martin is spending time producing tutorial videos. The new one is about comparaisons in Slim. There are two majors things to learn in it: approximate equals ranges The ~= sign means “approximately equals … Continue reading →

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Bob Martin releases Fitnesse with Slim

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

You are probably familiar with Fitnesse, a wiki site that wraps Fit. It is basically an environment that helps attaching tests to specifications. Some call this a Test-Driven Requirements (TDR) tool. It has been originally written by Robert C Martin … Continue reading →

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Back from Open Source eXchange

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Interesting day at Open Source eXchange, a conference organized by Xebia and SkillsMatter. It was fun meeting Wendy Devolder (now CEO of SkillsMatter) formerly from Valtech (I worked with her at Valtech London back in 2001-2002) and Michael Isvy (with … Continue reading →

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CITCON Amsterdam Continuous Integration Cage Fight on YouTube

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Julian has just posted on YouTube videos he took during the CI Showdown at CITCON Amsterdam last October. Sound quality is not very good, so make sure you are in a quiet environment. CruiseControl build-o-matic Hudson, with yours truly Cruise … Continue reading →

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Hudson can now update itself

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Finally! I have been waiting for this for a while. From v1.259, Hudson is now able to update itself automatically (as long as you have installed Hudson as a Windows Service — granted, this might not be the general case). … Continue reading →

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30,000 ScrumMasters and 1,500,000 members of Scrum Teams?!

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

A look on the ScrumAlliance list of Certified ScrumMasters shows that they have 618 pages each containing 50 names of ScrumMaster. This means more than 30,000 CSMs as of Novembre, 3rd, 2008. According to an interview of Jeff Sutherland, for … Continue reading →

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