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Software Naturalism - Embracing the Real Behind the Ideal

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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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Feb 17, 2012

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

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