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coding style - Usage of magic strings/numbers - Programmers Stack Exchange

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By Stefan Billiet, Daniel Gruszczyk, Konrad Morawski, John Bode
| programmers.stackexchange.com
This is somewhat controversial topic, and I guess there is as many opinions as there are programmers. But for the sake of it, I want to know what are the common practices in business (or in your work places). In my work place we have a strict coding guidelines. One section of that is dedicated to magic strings/numbers. It states (for C#): There are exceptions: the values 0, 1 and null can nearly always be used safely. Very often the values 2 and -1 are OK as well.
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Does anyone else feel Scrum isn't agile?

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By Steven A. Lowe, Stefan Billiet
| programmers.stackexchange.com
I am a big fan of agile development and used XP on a very successful project a few years ago. I loved everything about it, the iterative development approach, writing code around a test, pair programming, having a customer on site to run things by. It was a highly productive work environment and I never felt like I was under pressure. However the last few places I have worked use/used Scrum. I know it's the poster child for agile development these days but I'm not 100% convinced it is agile.
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