At:
http://www.agical.com/mikmeth/mikadomethod.pdf
our draft book about the Mikado Method is available for public review. The book has gone through some rounds of feedback, and now we hope to get even more!
The goal of the book is to quickly provide an understanding of the Mikado Method, and then build on that as the book progresses. While doing so we touch on other topics that are related to refactoring.
As is stated on the very first “draft page” of the book, we would especially like feedback on:
- Pedagogic ordering
- Things you don’t understand or that are insufficiently explained
- Things that are missing
- Things that shouldn’t be in there for one or another reason
- Spelling and grammar
We hope that you will find the book useful and we look forward to any questions or opinions you might have!
Your comments are most welcome here, or on the Mikado Method Google group:
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Brilliant book.
I’d love to take it with me on my Sony Reader, but there are a few issuens…
Everything’s ok on the smallest ‘zoom’ level, but that means that the text is tiny!
I can soom in, but that involves ‘re-flowing’ the page.
Unfortunately, the last words on each line get split incorrectly.
I.e. the line ending “as they often do, there usually comes a time” gets split: “as they often d” and “o, there usually comes a time”.
Anything you might be able to fix?
Another great alternative would be to have an EPUB version – which is *much* better for ebook readers!
Thanks for contributing such a great idea / book.
Hi David,
Thank you for the kind words about the book!
I tried to convert the PDF to EPUB using Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/download), but the outcome was not that pleasing.
It was my first go, so perhaps there are settings that will make it look better, so we’ll have to investigate a bit further.
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Maybe add a footnote in the introduction for greenfield and brownfield? I know that I hadn’t heard these terms until recently and I would suppose others would be confused by them as well.
Thanks for your feedback!
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