Thanks for following up! I'll sign up for Blue Sky and reply there.| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
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Hello to all those still keeping an eye on this awesome mailing group! I'm not sure if this is within the rules, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a company who are offering remote contracts for software engineers at the moment. I'm attempting to live between the UK and South Africa, which my UK employer weren't supportive of, unfortunately. My thinking for asking here is that people interested in XP tend to be my kind of people, and perhaps you have found some interesting places t...| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
The AI class code uses a Horn clause deductive retriever in Lisp which is tested with lisp-unit. My AI class in Lisp uses lisp-unit, a minimal unit tester I wrote that was open-sourced a while ago. There is a unit testing package for SWI Prolog but I've not used it.| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Group, thank you for all the names that you have suggested. Ron, thank you for taking the time to respond to my email. I'll send you a private message. Although I've responded to email threads on this group, I realize that I haven't introduced myself (or at least not in awhile). I taught XP at Carnegie Mellon University from ~2006 to 2014 and published academic articles on my experience. From 2014 to 2021, I did Pivotal's form of Extreme Programming. While there, I did my PhD dissertatio...| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM Steven Solomon via groups.io <solomon.steven.m=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote: I'd plus-one the suggestion for Elisabeth Hendrickson. I'd plus-plus-one that! :-)| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
As one of the original targets, please let me express my thoughts on this. They are not in any sense final, or even remotely correct. 1. I do not know OP, nor their work, so my initial reaction to a request is “no, I’m tired and retired and older than everyone in the room, just no.” 2. I would have to read the book. Then I’d have to decide whether to write the foreword. If I didn’t think the book was a real contribution, I wouldn’t want to endorse it with a foreword, and I would f...| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
I'd plus-one the suggestion for Elisabeth Hendrickson.| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Suggestions don't need to be debated. 😅 I'll leave it up to the author to consider.| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Let’s take a step back. What does OP hope to gain by having am intro from a famous person in this corner of the industry? Is the premise that “Someone will see I was endorsed by Name so they will be more likely to buy the book?” That might be a reasonable expectation if you think people will physically pick up a book before purchasing it, e.g. at a bookstore. Is that what you think will happen… or are sales apt to be primarily online? …In which case, I’m not sure you need to bothe...| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Todd, it sounds like your target audience might not be familiar with XP or some of the Pivotal practices your book covers. While I don’t have a specific name to suggest, an author well-known to your ideal reader for other engineering topics could help establish credibility for those new to this material.| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Steve, how about James Grenning or Tim Ottinger or Josh Kerievsky? (or possibly Uncle Bob?)| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Some ideas on who to ask... Ward Cunningham. Bob Martin. Martin Fowler. GeePaw Hill. Michael Feathers. Jim Newkirk. Jeff Langr. Pivotals own Elisabeth Hendrickson.| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Todd, Something small, but possibly significant: I think you want someone to write a “foreword" to your book, not a “forward” for your book. Have you shared a draft of the book with those that you’re asking?| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group
Todd, I don't have a big foot print online or in person so I wouldn't expect to be known to you, feel free to treat this advice from a random on the internet. Do you have any public samples of your writing or philosophy? I personally don't recognize your name or cant quickly link your contributions to you. What are you looking to acomplish with the forward? If your looking to get people that will help you sell maybe getting on a podcast would be a away to get a recognizable name to read it an...| Extreme Programming, formerly a Yahoo! group