Extreme startup is a practical workshop which simulates the excitement and insanity of working for a high pressure startup company, where every decision (or lack of) can make or loose you money - or in this case points!

Lets delve deeper into the misteries of this kind of coding workshop.

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Scrum is a framework for agile product development. Products are built iteratively, with each Sprint creating an increment of the product, usually starting with the most valuable and riskiest.

More and more Sprints create additional increments of the product. Each increment is a potentially shippable slice of the entire product. When enough increments have been created for the Product to be of value, the product is released.

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“If a thing like this is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing right” - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

This is my simplified way of describing the approach of extreme programming. Everything that is valuable is done all the time, because it is valuable. So as creating a test has value for the design of your classes you should do it for all of your code.

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Estimation is a dark art to start with and is often missuesed and abused to the detriment of the development team. As any valuable project has a level of uncertainty, estimates should never been seen as promises.

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Whilst Github is a great way to share a whole repository of code, sometimes you want to talk about the design and challenges of developing your code, that discussion is often best done in a blog post.

So how do you put your lovingly crafted Clojure code (or anything else) into a blog so that it looks as beautiful as it does in Emacs? Lets take a look at Github Gists.

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A really nice april fools from Cake Solutions. I actually think this works quite nice as a sound-byte for the Clojure functional programming language on the JVM.

There are lots of scarily possible april fools stories on Slashdot, although they are funny its disturbing how close some of them are to the truth.

My favourite april fools video is from the Bitbucket team, making light of developers who are weary of pair programming… I definitely have to get myself one of these t-shirts.

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@JR0cket

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