Speaker

Dave Thomas
The Pragmatic Programmers

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas are partners in The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, specializing in helping companies find better ways to develop software. They helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. Their best-selling book, The Pragmatic Programmer, describes some of the software development best practices they've discovered in their 40+ years of combined industry experience. Contact them via www.pragmaticprogrammer.com.

Presentation: "How To Keep Your Job"

Monday 13:00 - 13:45, Public Room

There's trouble brewing for programmers: the world of software development is changing -- new economic, political and technological forces are changing the rules of the game out from underneath us. Don't be left behind; see how to continue to develop both yourself and your code to adapt to newly changing realities. Join the Pragmatic Programmers to see how to keep your job.

How To Keep Your Job - (slides)

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Presentation: "Decoupling Patterns -- Untangling that Knot of Code"

Tuesday 10:45 - 11:30, Tutorial Room

We all know what highly coupled code feels like: make a minor change over here, and suddenly things start acting funny over there, and over there, and... So how do we avoid this? It turns out that following a few basic rules can stop this mess from happening. Join the Pragmatic Programmers for their look at how "The Jolly Good Suggestion of Demeter", Pina Coladas, and other memorable topics will help you write better software.

Decoupling Patterns -- Untangling that Knot of Code - (slides)

Please notice that the slides are password protected. You should have received an e-mail containing the required username and password.