Soapbox : Editorial essays

Soapbox - eXtreme Programming Development through Dialog

T o those who are unfamiliar with the method, eXtreme Programming might conjure up visions of programmers madly hacking away without concern for analysis, architecture, design, or consequences. Indeed, people have frequently made such accusations. Yet such claims are not only baseless, they are dia-metrically opposed to what XP is all about. XP is the brainchild of Kent Beck, and he describes i...

IJEE Soapbox: habitats and seasons

All naturalists know that the world is heterogeneous in space and time, for almost any physical property and at almost any scale one cares to examine. The diversity of life—the number of species that exist, and how they are organized into complex communities—must reflect in some way the magnitude and structure of that hetereogeneity. Ecologists use random quadrats to sample the world. The insig...

IJEE Soapbox: Prince kroPotkin meets the hutchinsonian niche

E-mail: [email protected] The IJEE Soapbox provides an informal forum for leading ecologists and evolutionary biologists to expound on issues that they find particularly exciting, thought provoking, and novel. Robert D. Holt is our first invited IJEE Soapbox essayist. Bob is Professor of Biology and Arthur R. Marshall, Jr., Chair in Ecology at the University of Florida, and is one of the forem...

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