Best Practices of the Software Craftsman

Abstract:

Learning how to be a good craftsmen of software takes time, its about using the tools, and the experience you’ve developed to ensure you are creating quality code. Come and learn from Devlin Liles and Tim Rayburn some of the skills that they’ve learned through the school of hard knocks, and hopefully you can learn from them without as much pain.

Speakers:

  • Devlin Liles

    11 Recordings

    Devlin Liles is the president of Improving Houston and a passionate technologist. He prides himself on staying a generalist, but his passion is leveraging technology to solve the problems facing business. Devlin has an entrepreneurial mindset and has been a key contributor to growth and success of the Houston office being one of the founding employees in 2011. Since 2007, he has been presenting and teaching classes on software development practices and tools to audiences around the world including user groups, conferences, and community events. Devlin has held the prestigious Microsoft MVP Award for the past 6 years which is only awarded to 3,000 technologists' annually. He is the co-author, along with his good friend Tim Rayburn of Entity Framework 4.1 Experts Cookbook. When he is not in front of a crowd or behind a computer Devlin is an avid soccer player and hobbyist gamer.

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Sep 28, 2013

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