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 William C. Wake's BlogApril 2006 ArchivesProblem-Solving and TeamsPosted by wwake on April 24, 2006 at 07:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)John Roth pointed out this blurb (Science Daily article) on problem-solving and team-size. It shows collaborative groups of 3-5 out-performing the best individuals on a problem-solving task. Origins '06Posted by wwake on April 21, 2006 at 08:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)The Origins game conference is June 29th - July 2, 2006, in Columbus, Ohio. There's almost nothing in the way of electronic games, but there are many sessions and seminars on other types of games. I pulled down the spreadsheet schedule and it had something like 3600 events on it. There's a huge vendor area as well. It's a bargain - only $50 for pre-registration, $60 at the door. I think some events have extra charges but it adds up to a reasonable cost. (Plus what you spend on food, lodging, and games:)
Extreme Test MakeoverPosted by wwake on April 15, 2006 at 11:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)Brian Marick and I are co-hosting a session, "Extreme Test Makeover," at the Agile Conference, currently scheduled for Monday, July 24. The idea is that you bring your code and tests, ready to run. We'll have a number of people who are experts in unit testing and acceptance testing, to help you improve and extend your tests. Some people who are planning to help include Ward Cunningham, Ron Jeffries, Jim Shore, Janet Gregory, Charlie Poole, and others. Our ideal is that you bring production code and tests, so you can walk away with concrete, ready-to-go improvements. But you can bring whatever you want that's interesting enough to test. The sessions will be 90 minutes long, including five minutes up-front for experts to talk, and ten minutes at the end to record lessons learned. Some sessions will be intimate, you and the expert and perhaps a couple people looking over your shoulder. For others, we plan to have a projector and microphone so many others can look on. Brian has set up a yahoo group: test-makeover to let people connect with the artists. There will be a signup sheet at the conference too. In Memory - Dr. Sallie HenryPosted by wwake on April 11, 2006 at 10:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)Dr. Sallie Henry died March 7, 2006. She came to the Computer Science department at the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse, in 1979. Her energy and enthusiasm were a real boost. She encouraged many students - most of the CS people I know from those days are still actively in the software business. At LaCrosse, she brought in undergraduate research opportunities, and she helped push the programming team to prominence. In the mid-80s, Sallie moved to Virginia Tech. There she continued a focus on teaching, the programming team, and research in the area of software metrics.
Sallie retired a few years ago, and I've hardly had contact with her since then. But I can't let her passing go by without an acknowledgment of how much she meant to me and my peers.
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