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Global Day of Coderetreat 2012 – Beijing, China
Beijing will participate in Global Day of Coderetreat again this year! Sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/BeijingSoftwareCraftsmanship/events/90858762/
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Prefactoring re-coined
Two pieces of input struck me this week that caused a bit of a brainwave. The first stimulus I chanced upon was Michael Feathers’ article on the sloppiness of refactoring, in which he proposes a nice...
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Cleaning Code – Tools and Techniques for Large Legacy Projects
Here are the slides from the presentation I gave at the ACCU conference this year:
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Conway’s Second Law
In software, so much of our history can be traced back to this man, Melvin E. Conway. In 1968, he wrote what became a classic paper in our cannon, How Do Committees Invent? This was to be the first...
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Christopher Alexander
In my life as an architect, I find that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low. If I ask a student whether...
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10x Codebases
There has been talk of 10x developers for as long as there has been software engineering. I have had the good fortune to work with some profoundly great engineers, and it is fantastic. But do you know...
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Large Legacy Software Restoration
Hi folks. As most of you know, I have been working for some time in a team committed to turning around a large legacy software project. It is a lot of fun to be involved in such a challenge, and I have...
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Long Life Software slides
Here are the slides for the talk I gave at the ACCU 2014 conference. This is the abstract: Civil engineers build structures to last. Aerospace engineers build airplanes for the long haul. Automotive...
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Video – Introducing the C++ Memory Model
The memory model is perhaps one of the most valuable but misunderstood changes in c++11. For the first time, c++ programmers have a language contract with the runtime about how their code will be...
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My InfoQ interview on Modern C++ and the C++ Memory Model
Mike Long on Modern C++ and the C++ Memory Model.
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