Pete Goodliffe

Pete Goodliffe is a software developer, columnist, speaker, and author who never stays at the same place in the software food chain; he's worked in numerous languages on diverse projects.

He also has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring programmers, and writes the regular "Professionalism in Programming" column for ACCU's C Vu magazine (www.accu.org).

Pete's popular book, Code Craft, is a practical and entertaining investigation of the entire programming persuit. In about 600 pages. No mean feat! Pete enjoys writing excellent, bug-free code, so he can spend more time having fun with his kids. He has a passion for curry and doesn't wear shoes.

Presentation: "A Tale of Two Systems"

Track: Effective Design

Time: Thursday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Fleming Room

Abstract:

We all want to design excellent code. We try to craft elegant, clear, beautiful software. Sometimes we're sucesful. Sometimes we're not. Often legacy code or company politics conspire to produce grotesque software monstrosities desite our best efforts.

So what can we do to design great software under the pressures of the real world?

This talk will look at some of the characteristics of well-designed software, and will contrast two real life code bases to learn what makes a good software design, and what makes a foul one.

There's little more valuable than real-world experience, and here we will learn from the mistakes and successes of other projects - more pain for less gain. We'll have a bit on fun on the journey, too.