Kevlin Henney, Patterns, Programming, Practice and Process

Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites, including Better Software, The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal. Kevlin is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know site and book.

97 Things: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com
Personal blog: http://asemantic.blogspot.com
Company site: http://curbralan.com
Twitter: @KevlinHenney

Presentation: "Party Keynote: Cool & Useless"

Time: Wednesday 17:35 - 18:25

Location: To be announced

Abstract: Just because you can doesn't mean you should. On the other hand, not everything that is cool and fun is necessarily useful and practical. Programmers and other technical types often enjoy playing with ideas, often for the sheer fun or challenge of it, not because an idea is directly useful or likely to provide meaningful business value to some stakeholder. This talk looks at and celebrates code and other geekish manifestations of things that are cool and useless.