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The importance of feedback |
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Feedback is a consistent theme of Chapter 2 of Lean Software Development. Feedback is a key element of any control system. By adding feedback and shortening feedback cycles you improve the responsiveness of the system.
Many agile practices can be seen as increasing feedback. Unit and acceptance tests, frequent builds, frequent release and close contact with the customer all improve feedback and improve your chance of a successful outcome.
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This is old news, but in case you haven't noticed, the Groovy JSR was approved unanimously.
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Deploying Python with wxPython |
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I've been playing around with Python and wxPython. I wrote a little application that shows a tree view of some data. I packaged it up with py2exe. The resulting distro is 8MB!! For a 100-line program! The entire Meccano2 distro is 6 MB including over a megabyte of help files.
It really makes me think twice about wxPython...
OK I'm not really being fair in the comparison as the Meccano distro doesn't include Java while the Python one does include both Python and wxWindows. But where I work if I'm going to distribute a Python app I probably have to include Python with it.
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