In an attempt to make this my "central" personal Wiki page, I am transferring some content from other Wiki pages around the world to here where appropriate and pointing to those pages in other cases.

'''Who'''

J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger is the President and Founder of Diaspar Software Services, a software consulting and development firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Diaspar Software specializes in Agile Software Development on the Java platform.

Joe has completed the book _JUnit Recipes_, ISBN 1932394230, published by Manning in August 2004.

Joe enjoys public speaking and writing. He enjoys making contact with all the nice people around the world that help promote his work. Thanks!


'''What'''

	* I write at http://www.jbrains.ca and http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com
	* I brought XP Day to North America co-organising five conferences from 2005 to 2007.
	* I wrote a book called "JUnit Recipes" (ISBN 1932394230).
	* I worked on a project with Toyota Canada Inc., which began as an XP project coached by MikeBowler. The corporate environment was not well-suited to XP, even though the project's planning and technical needs made XP an obvious choice. I estimate that we worked as an XP project for almost three months before we started slowly abandoning the XP practices, one by one. While I worked with Toyota, we stopped pair programming, stand-up meetings and collaborative design. Just after I left the project, automated unit testing was stopped. Although the overall experience was not positive, I learned a great deal about XP.
	* In response to complaints about the scarcity of tutorials on JavaUnit, I wrote one in 2001, which I didn't understand at the time acted as a precursor to JUnit Recipes.
	* I spent six months doing "XP for One" at IBM's Toronto Lab. I was the only member of my team and my manager helped with the planning. My technical customers were other developers working on my product, WebSphere Commerce. I described my experience in another presentation located on my web site.
	* I contributed regularly the JavaUnit mailing list from 2000 until approximately 2007.
	* As a response to witnessing repeated abuses of the SingletonPattern, I wrote an article in 2001 offering alternatives to Singleton. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/co-single.html

'''Why'''

I value XP because:
	* I want a sane work/life balance.
	* I want to do quality work with quality people.
	* I want to give the customer what they need.
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