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At last night’s meeting …

1. Ed gave us tips on using built-in Eclipse features to find and fix “pre-bugs”. Those are bugs that are about to occur.
2. Jim walked us thru an example from http://thedailywtf.com which pointed out the limits of traditional unit testing. He showed us a badly written random number generator and we tried to test it into quality. This doesn’t work because the non-deterministic nature of the problem. We talked about various approaches which were helpful but incomplete.
3. We decided to have a special meeting in December to re-introduce the group to new folks. (more later)
4. We got progress reports from the xp-cinci projects. In brief, it’s been a slow summer. Projects discussed: eXplainPMT, build-system install, & rubygems website.

Also, Jim showed us his ‘tarpit’ approach to keeping spammers off a public wiki. Really cool approach.

Thanks to all for making this another good meeting!