This week James and Michael spoke to Kent Beck, perhaps the best known advocate of XP (Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development). The conversation covered a lot of ground, going over Smalltalk, testing, software development in general, and finishing up with an idea for "going for the longball" with Smalltalk.

This podcast was a lot of fun - I'd like to thank Kent for the taking the time with us.

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