Red Squirrel Reflections Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development

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Encouraging Meeting
Tuesday, October 8, 2002

The meeting with the developers for my project at work went well. I gave them an overview of Struts, using the small amount of work I have done to illustrate its features. People caught on quickly, apparently because of their previous experience with ATG Dynamo. Once I was sure the Struts info had sunk in, I introduced Cactus and the concept of Unit Testing. Because they hadn't Unit Tested before, this took a little more effort to explain, but again, the small examples I had already done provided a good start. Because of everyone's unfamiliarity with Struts and Cactus, I will be able to introduce Pair Programming covertly.

Now that I have the View and Control pieces in place, it's time to throw in the Model. I started reading the third edition of Enterprise JavaBeans yesterday. I am setting up JBoss on my PowerBook and learning about XDoclet.

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