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Stop Refactoring!
Summary
Nat Pryce considers that we cannot write the perfect code because it is never fully prepared for the coming change, so he suggests embracing impermanence & continual imperfection.
Bio
Nat Pryce is author of "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" and developer of the jMock mock-object library. He is an early adopter of XP, a contributor to several open source libraries and tools supporting TDD, and one of the organizers of the London XP Day conference. Pryce has received his PhD from Imperial College.
About the conference
For the second time we are launching the GOTO Copenhagen conference in May 2012 after a successful execution in 2011. GOTO Aarhus has been an annual event in Denmark since 1996 and attracts more than 1200 participants (formerly known as JAOO). The target audience for GOTO conferences are software developers, IT architects and project managers.http://gotocon.com/