San Francisco Perl Users Group Archives: June 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
June 26, 2007: Fred Moyer on the Big Ball of Mud (Plus Nordic Perl Review)
NOTE, NOTE, NOTE: This meeting starts at 7:00 p.m., not our usual meeting time of 8:00. We are trying an earlier time at the request of our venue.
Fred will discuss techniques for handling the Big Ball of Mud&8212;that haphazardly grown, ill-documented, fragile, and messy codebase that we've all had to deal with. His talk focuses on how to test and clean up BBOMs, paying off technical debt[1] so you can add features again without fear of the code breaking.
I (Quinn Weaver) had a chance to see this talk last month, and I was very impressed. Fred does a great job of explaining not just the technical, uh, techniques for handling BBOMs, but also the trickier social engineering you have to do in order to make it happen.
This is a shortish talk, so Fred will also cover the highlights of the Nordic Perl Workshop, where he recently spoke.
BGI will sponsor Thai food from BKK. Thanks, guys! [more]
Posted by Quinn Weaver @ 10:35 PM PST [Link]
