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The Craftsman Learns ... or Learning the Craft

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Summary

Pete Goodliffe provokes his listeners to keep learning over the course of their entire life, offering advice on how to approach learning, what is valuable and what can be ignored, how to deal with new things, having a healthy attitude towards learning, and how to feed one’s curiosity.

Bio

Pete Goodliffe is a software developer, columnist, speaker, and author who never stays at the same place in the software food chain. He also has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring programmers, and writes the regular "Professionalism in Programming" column for ACCU's C Vu magazine. Pete's book, Code Craft, is a practical and entertaining investigation of the entire programming pursuit.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Aug 31, 2010

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