J.B. Rainsberger’s Up for Wikipedia Deletion
Apparently JB’s entry on Wikipedia is up for deletion. He comments on the whole process of the debate around his deletion as:
The whole experience makes me feel like I’m in a room with people talking about me while not acknowledging my presence and not seeming to care what I think about that.
I can’t even believe there’s a debate around it. JB has obviously contributed much to unit testing, TDD, XP, and Agile in general. His book, JUnit Recipes, I still use as a reference when I run into a nasty testing problem. I re-read sections on testing EJBs just a few days ago and it was better than anything you can find by just googling around. He’s hosted workshops at XP conferences, run XP days, written a popular JUnit tutorial. I still love his post on BDD:
What is Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)?
It is Test-Driven Development (TDD) practiced correctly; nothing more.
For all that work he really doesn’t deserve this sort of treatment.
Thanks, Ed. I appreciate any and all support, especially such kind words. Take care!
I was about to put in my $0.02 in support of JB, but apparently the decision has already been made to keep the entry:
>The result wasKeep Capitalistroadster
>07:28, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Way to go JB!
Alberto
Great news.
Thanks, you two. It’s nice to know someone has my back. I hope to see you in DC next week.