Developer Workshop: Keeping It Simple with Kevlin Henney
We are often urged to keep code, design and architecture simple. What, however, is the motivation for this? And what does this mean in practice? Is it just an aesthetic or does simplicity also have social, economic and technical implications?
In this masterclass, we'll look at typical sources of complexity in our coding habits and development processes, from working with incomplete knowledge to trying to future-proof our systems, from deadline pressure to technical neglect, from noisy code to paradigm. To keep it real, we'll also look at some examples of complexity and their simpler counterparts, with code examples in a variety of programming languages.
What to bring
Bring your own laptop. This workshop requires no more set-up than a browser.
About Kevlin Henney
Kevlin is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies covers programming, practice and people. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.
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