NNUG Stavanger - Oktober 2009

NNUG Stavanger har gleden av å invitere til et ekstraordinært brukergruppemøte i forbindelse med at selveste Anders Norås fra Objectware og NNUG Oslo vil besøke oss torsdag 22. oktober - samme dag som Windows 7 releases! Her blir det fest, og du er hjertelig velkommen!


Agenda

Del 1: "Green Patches in a Brown Field"

Everybody loves to start with a clean slate and build software from scratch. Unfortunately, such "Greenfield" projects are hard to come by and most of us work with less glamorous "Brownfield" software. A "brownfield" application can be a monolith you've inherited from others, a new project that needs to use existing legacy components or third party solutions.

In this talk Anders Norås shares his real-world experiences on how to approach "brownfield" applications with the state-of-the-art concepts, patterns, and tools you've learned to apply to new projects. You'll learn what patterns you can apply to shield yourself from legacy cruft, how to find good refactoring opportunities and when choosing suboptimal designs for parts of your solution can help the solution as a whole.

Whether your maintaining an existing application, building new software atop of legacy components or simply cleaning up the mess others left behind, you're sure to pick up some tricks to combat the designs that otherwise would ruin your day.


Del 2: "Open Spaces"

Anders vil gjerne nytte anledning til å diskutere emner som vi foreslår i form av en felles "open spaces" sesjon - eller spørsmål og svar om du vil. Her er det bare å forberede gode spørsmål - Anders vil stå for de gode svarene!



About Anders Norås

Source: http://andersnoras.com/

Anders Norås is a programmer, speaker, husband and father of two living in Drøbak, Norway. Anders makes his living working as Chief Technology Evangelist for Objectware, a consultancy providing software development services.

Anders has worked for many clients, both large enterprises and smaller start-ups, helping them use leading edge technologies and common sense to build better software. He enjoys helping others build better software by speaking at user groups and conferences.