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New user? Monday, June 5, 2000
10 more pounds
My parents recently got back from a 3 week trip to Halifax... they told me that it looked like I had lost even more weight since they left, because my face looked much slimmer.
That was weird, since I had my wisdom tooth out two days earlier and my face was totally swollen. But they swore it looked slimmer.
This evening I weighed myself for the first time in a couple weeks, the last time I did my exercise on their treadmill. Last week I was out of commission because of the wisdom tooth, and the week before that I was swamped at work. (yeah, the week I only posted here once!)
Well, it looks like I've lost another 10 pounds, despite having not been exercising. I guess not being able to eat much of anything except soup and juice for a week will do that to a person. ;-)
So far, unofficially, I've lost about 22 pounds! I have to make an appointment with my family doctor for my "1 month checkup". I'm a few days late for that one.
Saturday, June 3, 2000
XP
I read Kent Beck's book, "eXtreme Programming explained: Embrace Change" this past week. I just found the Preface on the publisher's web site... it's a great, consise description.
My customer's shop is adopting the XP practices; this is a great opportunity for me to get my feet wet with XP. The only problem is that pair-programming is a core practice in XP, and I work at home, alone, on the other side of the continent as my customer.
I'll be putting on my best Two-Face impression to try to make it work. :)
eGroups has an extremeprogramming mailing list. It's a high traffic list, and the high-priests of XP are frequent participants on the list.
Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Vote now!
The voting deadline for the Java Developer Journal's Reader Awards is today. In the "Best Application Server" category, WebObjects is very close to 1st place, but needs a few more votes to make it over the top.
If you like WebObjects, please vote for it!
Don't know much about WebObjects? Here's a very cool QuickTime movie called "WebObjects Overview", sent to me by the person at Apple Enterprise Training that taught me WO.
The movie isn't available publicly yet, but I have permission to redistribute it. Soon it will be available from Apple's web site -- see it before everyone else! :)
