[sf-perl] June 26 - 7:00 p.m. (NOT 8:00) - Fred Moyer on the Big Ball of Mud

Quinn Weaver quinn at fairpath.com
Wed Jun 20 21:17:03 PDT 2007


Hi, everyone,

This is a reminder that next Tuesday we're meeting

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for Fred's talk.  RSVP to Jeff.Thalhammer at barclaysglobal.com,
so he can order the right amount of Thai food. :)

Further details at http://sf.pm.org/weblog/archives/00000045.html.

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:04:43PM -0700, Quinn Weaver wrote:
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>       This meeting starts at 7:00 p.m., NOT 8:00.
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> Ahem.  That said, I'm pleased to announce our next talk:
> 
> June 26, 2007:
> Fred Moyer on the Big Ball of Mud
> 
> Fred Moyer (http://www.redhotpenguin.com/) will discuss techniques
> for handling the Big Ball of Mud: 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
> so you can add features again without fear of the code breaking.
> 
> I 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!
> 
>        RSVP to Jeff.Thalhammer at barclaysglobal.com
> 
>        Location details at http://sf.pm.org/weblog/archives/00000045.html
> 
> -- 
> Quinn Weaver, independent contractor  |  President, San Francisco Perl Mongers
> http://fairpath.com/quinn/resume/     |  http://sf.pm.org/
> 510-520-5217

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