Not Just Code Monkeys • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2014

Martin Fowler discusses patterns, refactoring, and agile methods, emphasizing that developers should be active participants in design rather than just writing code.

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2014. #gotocon #gotober gotober.com Martin Fowler - Author, Speaker, Consultant & General Loud-mouth on Software Development ABSTRACT In the last decade or so we've seen a number of new ideas added to the mix to help us effectively design our software. Patterns help us capture the solutions and rationale for using them. Refactoring allows us to alter the design of a system after the code is written. Agile methods, in particular Extreme Programming, give us a highly iterative and evolutionary approach which is particularly well suited to changing requirements and environments. Martin Fowler has been a leading voice in these techniques and will give a suite of short talks featuring various aspects about his recent thinking about how these and other developments affect our software development. [...] Read the full abstract here: gotocon.com/berlin-2014/presentation/Opening%20Keynote:%20So… RECOMMENDED BOOKS Martin Fowler & Pramod Sadalage • NoSQL Distilled • amzn.to/3ChIpu7 Martin Fowler • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture • amzn.to/3lp4sIq Martin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages • amzn.to/3nzOIFk Martin Fowler • UML Distilled • amzn.to/3kahjyA Martin Fowler • Analysis Patterns • amzn.to/3Emabar twitter.com/GOTOcon linkedin.com/company/goto- instagram.com/goto_con facebook.com/GOTOConferences #CodeMonkeys #MartinFowler CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1 Many thanks to Daniel Carral for providing the Spanish and English subtitles - dcarral.org