JAOO 2007: Bob Martin - Life in the Universe, Beautiful Code and Programming Discipline
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I recently got the chance to attend
JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark. Besids learning a great amount about various approaches to solving hard problems that we all face as programmers (regardless of the stack we spend most of our time developing on), I got to meet so many interesting people from all
walks of programmer life. What a great conference! For one thing, JAOO not about specifc products. It's not about one company's view of the world. It's not about one class of technologies or developer. It's not just about Java and LAMP or .NET and Windows.
Bob Martin is the CEO and founder of Object Mentor. He's also an incredible speaker and very passionate about creating "clean", precise, beautiful code.
Bob keynoted this year's JAOO and his message was crystal clear: As professional developers, we need to write code in a professional way. What does that mean, exactly? Well, listen in. Bob explains in his usual clear, clean and concise way. You'll see Bob again in a subsequent interview (very fun one!) that took place at JAOO 2007.
Enjoy.
Bob Martin is the CEO and founder of Object Mentor. He's also an incredible speaker and very passionate about creating "clean", precise, beautiful code.
Bob keynoted this year's JAOO and his message was crystal clear: As professional developers, we need to write code in a professional way. What does that mean, exactly? Well, listen in. Bob explains in his usual clear, clean and concise way. You'll see Bob again in a subsequent interview (very fun one!) that took place at JAOO 2007.
Enjoy.
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Robert Martin did a fantastic key note, looking forward to see this video, after i have seen the one with kresten
"Uncle" Bob is an agile Java kind of guy.
http://www.objectmentor.com/omTeam/martin_r.html
May 2007
http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=Agile%20SkypeCast
Good interview tho
That's his full name, yes. People call him Bob, which is a common knickname for Robert.
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One thing I like to do is look at all the software projects I've done in the past and group together all of the common functionality and then create nice clean class wrappers that handle the functionality that all of the previous solutions used.
Writing clean code doesn't have to mean that you spend a lot of time writing and re-writing code to make it clean. The idea that deadlines and budgets mean you have to forego clean code is wrong. If you take the time to learn "how" to write clean code and you practice doing it, when crunch time comes you'll be able to write clean code as fast as you might write sloppy code. The catch is that most programmers don't practice the "art of coding" with the goal of creating something clean and elegent and instead only code when "on-the-clock" and under pressure to finish what they're working on.
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