15 Aug 2006 Meeting : Clean Up Your Code: 10 Java Coding Tricks, Techniques, and Philosophies by Neal Ford 
This session delivers 10 techniques for improving your code, whether you are freshly graduated or a grizzled veteran.
Even the most competent programmer falls into habits and coding ruts. This session delivers 10 techniques for improving your code, whether you are freshly graduated or a grizzled veteran. It is derived from many sources, including other languages (Smalltalk, Lisp, Java, and others), and techniques and idioms we have developed teaching developers. It also consolidates information from books that delve into the craft of writing good software. The goal is to create code that is easier to read, maintain, debug, and enhance.
Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neal’s primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30 developers’ conferences worldwide.
This talk is presented on behalf of the annual
Pacific Northwest Software Symposium. There will be a couple of NFJS 2006 Anthology books and a
raffle for a free pass to the conference at the meeting.
Join Us for the 5th annual
Pacific Northwest Software Symposium returning to Redmond on September 15-17th 2006.
