I learned that XP stands for extreme programming, which is a flavor of agile dev. I met this XP website: http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ which has a list of "rules" i..e progceedures- very useful! I haven't read them yet. But they'll be useful. http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules.html
To be honest, I feel like my brain is a little fried. It's kinda late in the day and it might be time to have a drink and not stare at a glowing screen. My laptop is running hot. I want hot cocoa.
Here's a site which is less simple and usable (to my eyes) than extremeprogramming.org but the article titles look like I want to read them. http://xprogramming.com/index.php (burn down vs. kanban board? locating bottlenecks. Scrum. http://xprogramming.com/articles/kate-oneal-burning-down/) Aha! pics on Google Images tell me that I have seen kanban boards before, at dfr's old workplace and at TW. (What was the name of dfr's old company? Dammit.)
Here is yet another shiny website. For some reason it has book reviews, but there are also Tests from a Hat! Mmmm. Shiny. http://www.xp123.com/g4p/hat/
Also, Scrum on a page! I think I've seen this before, though hell knows where. http://xp123.com/xplor/xp0507/Scrum-dev.pdf There's one for XP but it looks like an undergrad made it for a giveaway project. Oh gods, I probably just stuck my foot in it hardcore. But it does. Let's make new versions. ...Man, I constantly think of things that my professors could have done better. But if they had done all of those things, the students would have had a nervous breakdown. Or balked like overloaded goats.
Anyway. I just ordered this book (Fowler linked to it) because, honestly, it's one cent on amazon, plus shipping. And the description looks like it'd be useful. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201616408/
Alistair Cockburn (Scrum/agile guy) has a blog but none of the recent titles caught my attention. Should review it delta time. http://alistair.cockburn.us/Blog?view=dlist
http://pettichord.com/ This guy mentions Selenium, which I've at least looked at although not used, and Watir, which I've never heard of. Time to change that.
Ah, Mingle. I think there's a free dl; it'd be interesting to run it locally. Free for up to five users, or for one year? Someone is pretty sure that the product will hook the customer. http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle-agile-project-management
Tasty essay to read later "What is software design?" http://www.bleading-edge.com/Publications/C++Journal/Cpjour2.htm
Basically a white paper on why people are important when doing dev. Probably related to the concept that a teally topnotch guru can program 1000(more more)x faster than a basic. http://alistair.cockburn.us/Characterizing+people+as+non-linear%2c+first-order+components+in+software+development Too complicated for me right now. Maybe later.
Agile Alliance homepage! Very StarWars-sounding. http://www.agilealliance.org/
Golly, Fowler has written a lot. http://martinfowler.com/articles.html If I ever run out of books in an airport I know what I can do with my time.
I think that CS ppl believe that the future is inevitable and that trying to slow it down is [negative word here: silly/stupid/futile/etc]
Omg the manifesto! Must read. Heh. http://www.agilemanifesto.org/ I think that this is the coolest link from that article.
Red/Green refactoring- makes sense. Also, code "smells" (I recently learned what these things are and therefore think that they're cool.) http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Red-Green-Refactor.html
Anyway, I've run out of tabs now.