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title: "In-Your-Face"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/2/in-your-face.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/2/in-your-face.html"
published: "2003-06-02T11:45:00"
updated: "2003-06-02T11:45:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "\" I'm sitting here in a basement room in the Hyatt Recency right now listening to the inimitable Don Box talk about _______ and ________ (can't tell you about them yet...wait about 6 months. In a nutshell, we're making…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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---

# In-Your-Face

By Roy Osherove June 2, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 2, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

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<table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>I'm sitting here in a basement room in the Hyatt Recency right now listening to the inimitable Don Box talk about _______ and ________&nbsp; (can't tell you about them yet...wait about 6 months.&nbsp; In a nutshell, we're making the "X" in </em><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"><em>XML</em></a><em> much bigger :-).&nbsp;"</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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\[[InkBlog](http://www.inkblog.com/2003/06/01.html#a43)\]

Ugh. Why is it that people have to write it in-your-face? Hint - If you can't tell us, please don't start telling. Really.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Jun 4, 2003

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- Jun 3, 2003

    ### [Overworked](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/3/overworked.html)

- Jun 2, 2003

    ### [Medieval Times](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/2/medieval-times.html)

- Jun 1, 2003

    ### [I'm a Configuration Manager... I Think.](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/1/im-a-configuration-manager-i-think.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/