Eli Collins This is Me

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1. 1. [Icon Today] - Tech News

   www.icontoday.com/news/default - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/25/2001   Last Visited: 7/2/2002

   As Eli Collins, a programmer with the New York-based software firm Union Square Internet Development, scoured the list of error messages, Tom Clarke, Collins' colleague and "pair programming" partner for the afternoon, made the discovery.
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   Within seconds, Collins, the designated typist, had fixed the error. With a click of the return button, the program was running once again through a battery of internal tests written by the two-man coding team over the last two weeks. This time around, the offending red tinge signifying a failed test was gone. The program's status bar showed solid green. Zero failures. Their newest feature, a point-and-click editing command, had received the green light, literally, and Collins and Clarke were ready to move on.
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   "Ah yes," said Clarke, leaning back while Collins piloted the machine.
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   As for his programming mate, Eli Collins, he reports a similarly positive take on the XP methodology.
   
   "There's none of this worry about breaking things three days before release, which is a serious concern on most projects," he says. "[With XP], you can sit down with a client and if they say they want to do something new, you can say, 'OK. We're ready.'"
   
   Recalling the earlier pair programming episode, Collins adds with a smile, "It's also a confidence booster when you know that stuff like a missing 'i' isn't going to come back and bite you."

2. 2. Salon.com Technology | Totally awesome software?

   nx1.salon.com/tech/feature/200 - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/11/2001   Last Visited: 6/21/2002

   As Eli Collins, a programmer with the New York-based software firm Union Square Internet Development, scoured the list of error messages, Tom Clarke, Collins' colleague and "pair programming" partner for the afternoon, made the discovery.
   ...
   Within seconds, Collins, the designated typist, had fixed the error. With a click of the return button, the program was running once again through a battery of internal tests written by the two-man coding team over the last two weeks. This time around, the offending red tinge signifying a failed test was gone. The program's status bar showed solid green. Zero failures. Their newest feature, a point-and-click editing command, had received the green light, literally, and Collins and Clarke were ready to move on.
   ...
   "Ah yes," said Clarke, leaning back while Collins piloted the machine.