An Evening with Uncle Bob Martin

December 18
Windows 8 Applications
Tuesday Malvern, PA
Our monthly meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office in Malvern, PA on Tuesday, December 18 from 5:30-8:00. Refreshments are provided courtesy of 8th Light . We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site .
5:30
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6:00 Break
Meet your peers. Refreshments and drinks courtesy of 8th Light .
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8th Light
The name of our company holds special meaning to our founder Micah Martin who trained in the Hakkoryu School of Jujitsu. As a company, we focus on our clients as we seek ways to meet, exceed, and even predict their needs. As craftsmen, we continually practice our craft and hone our skills. In this sense, we share a particular kinship with the spirit of Hakkoryu, which in Japanese means “The Style of the 8th Light.â€* Learn more at www.8thlight.com .
6:15
Uncle Bob Martin Are your software developers professionals?
When you seek help for your tax calculations, you demand the knowledge of accounting standards. When you seek medical care, you demand someone who abides by the Hippocratic Oath and the modern professional charter. Similarly, when you seek help with your software development needs, you can demand software professionalism.
The vast majority of software developers have yet to learn the practices and disciplines that constitute professional behavior. That's because those practices have only just recently been defined. The software industry is barely fifty years old. It has taken nearly that long to figure out what software professionalism is. It is only in the last few years that a set of generally accepted software practices have been defined. But now they are here, and it's time for management to demand that professional behavior. In this talk, Robert C. Martin will describe these disciplines, and practices, and will discuss how to raise the professionalism bar in your projects and teams.
Robert C. Martin, aka, Uncle Bob, has been a software professional since 1970 and an international software consultant since 1990. In the last 40 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects. In 2001, he initiated the meeting of the group that created Agile Software Development from Extreme Programming techniques and served as the first chairman of the Agile Alliance. He is also a leading member of the Worldwide Software Craftsmanship Movement - Clean Code. He has authored "landmark" books on Agile Programming, Extreme Programming, UML, Object-Oriented Programming, C++ Programming and most recently Clean Code and Clean Coder. He has published dozens of articles in various trade journals. You can learn more about him at his website: www.cleancoder.com .
8:00 Closing & Raffle!
Books, software, and other goodies!

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