Essays

Weblog of Kent S Johnson

Here are some longer essays, mostly about agile software development.

• Jython + dom4j = High octane development (2369 words)
• Design and coding (390 words)
• A place for everything and everything in its place (108 words)
• Short methods (176 words)
• Growing a design (243 words)
• Test-driven development (265 words)
• Simplicity Rules (356 words)
• XPath and dom4j (292 words)
• Don't Repeat Yourself (269 words)
• When should I use classes? (1085 words)
• Why I love Python (2060 words)
• Python and Unicode (817 words)
• Using R in Biostatistics (6366 words)
• A Brief Tour of Python (2544 words)
• Getting started with Python (593 words)
• Getting started with Agile Development (977 words)
• Introduction to Mercurial (1769 words)