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Wednesday, October 2, 2002
 

This PDA looks cool, but the price kills any interest. Why are Pocket PC devices so expensive? A Palm costs sub $300 for a high end device. I can buy a desktop for the cost of a pocket PC device. Are corporations actually buying these things?

Razor: Take This PDA for a Spin. Scooter maker Razor has a new product: a sleek new PDA that flashes blue when you press the buttons. Will potential customers come along for the ride? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] 11:22:09 AM    


From the XP Discussion Group: On Tuesday, October 01, 2002, 11:51:03 PM, Grady wrote:

> I'd like to point everyone to an excellent study found in the latest issue > of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (July 2002) by > Mockus, Fielding, and Herbsleb, titled "Two Case Studies of Open Source > Software Development: Apache and Mozilla."

It's available here for those who don't have ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology http://www.research.avayalabs.com/techreport/ALR-2002-003-paper.pdf 11:01:43 AM    


The Coad Letter: This month's issue on Test Driven Development is a great background on JUnit.

Welcome to the The Coad Letter, hosted Peter Coad (pronounced "code").

The Coad Letter focuses on these key areas: competitive strategy, adaptive process, modeling, design, and testing. This site is a specialized e-newsletter source and online community, dedicated to developing, discussing, and advancing these topics. [The Coad Letter]

http://www.thecoadletter.com/ 10:31:13 AM    


From the Extreme Programming Yahoo Group:

csUnit V1.4.1 has just been released. The C# testing framework for MS .NET is available for free under the terms of the GNU GPL, and can be downloaded at the csUnit site:

http://www.csunit.org

In addition a tutorial, an FAQ, and support information is available there.

Best regards, Manfred. --- Manfred Lange. 10:17:18 AM