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Fighting Bit Rot with your Mind
Viktor Klang discusses approaches to writing software without building a complex, full of bugs and hard to maintain basecode.
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Applied API Design
Jon Skeet provides practical advice on designing APIs using immutability, separation of concerns and other principles, resulting in elegant and reusable code.
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How to Make the Most of Code Analysis?
Patrick Smacchia shares code analysis-related practices - structuring code, measuring code quality, automated tests, code contracts, reporting progress, trending- based on his experience with NDepend.
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The Tao, of the Joy, of Coding
Dick Wall makes connections between Lao-Tzu’ philosophical insights found within his writing, Tao Te Ching, and the art of software development.
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Back to the Future
Emma Langman explores the usefulness of some of the Quality tools that have been around since the 50s for gathering requirements, tackling repeat problems, or innovating more efficiently as a team.
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Voice of the Customer
Barb Spurway, Tracy Bowman discuss Voice of the Customer (VoC), a Total Quality Management/ Lean Manufacturing concept helping teams build quality products from the customers’ perspective.
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Building SOLID Foundations
Nat Pryce, Steve Freeman advise on design principles useful to create code structures with objects that fit together and communicate, and where the capabilities and the information flow are explicit.
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Stop That! Questioning Dogmatic Programming
Doug Hiebert questions conventional wisdom that is taken for granted when writing code, and presents alternatives by way of before-and-after examples.
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Agility is the Tool, Not the Master
Tom Gilb keynotes on agility, outlining 10 principles and his own values for Agile value delivery.
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Managing JavaScript Complexity
Jarrod Overson presents ways to quantify and reduce JavaScript complexity as well as some of the techniques the experts use to create maintainable JavaScript.
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Programming, Only Better
Bodil Stokke keynotes on the FP languages for writing bug free, fault tolerant code that help building simple, concurrent and reusable software.
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A Question of Craftsmanship
Kevlin Henney addresses the motivation, implications, pros and cons of a craftsmanship view of software development, as well as touching on other metaphors and their implied practices.