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Software Naturalism - Embracing the Real Behind the Ideal

Presented by Michael Feathers on Feb 17, 2012 Length 00:58:09     Download: MP3
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Sections
Architecture & Design,
Development
Topics
Code Quality ,
Code Analysis ,
QCon San Francisco 2011 ,
Quality ,
Software Craftsmanship ,
Debugging ,
QCon ,
Profilers ,
Conferences ,
Programming ,
Agile ,
Ugly Code
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Summary
Michael Feathers analyzes real code bases concluding that code is not nearly as beautiful as designers aspire to, discussing the everyday decisions that alter the code bit by bit.

Bio
Michael Feathers is a consultant with Object Mentor. He balances his time between working with, training and coaching various teams around the world. Publically, Michael developed Cppunit, the initial port of JUnit to C++, and FitCpp, a C++ port of the FIT integrated-test framework. Michael is also the author of the book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' (Prentice Hall 2004).

About the conference
Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors
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    found a typo

    by steve zhang

    I think the "Bufferfly effect" should be "Butterfly effect".