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Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

The nature of programming and developing software has been debated a lot recently. At QCon London 2009 Sir Tony Hoare talked in the opening keynote about the communication between the professional developer and the academic computer scientist and how the work should be divided between the two.
In december 2008 the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship was [...]

Is it professional to cheat your boss?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Our industry is plagued by an epidemic of very bad code – Robert Martin (known as Uncle Bob), founder of ObjectMentor.
One of the videos on jaoo.blip.tv from last year’s JAOO is about craftmanship and being professional. It is a discussion between Robert C. Martin, Michael Feathers and Pete McBreen guided by Trifork CTO Kresten Krab [...]

Videos online

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

We have a series of videos from JAOO online now.

Martin Fowler and Marcus Völter discuss DSLs.
Bob Martin, Pete McBreen and Mike Feathers discuss “Software Craftmanship”
Kirk Pepperdine talks on Java Performance Tuning
Attila Szegedi, Charles Nutter, and Erik Meijer discuss dynamic languages and language environments for mixed programming languages
… and more.

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