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Most coders wish they were refactoring their code more than they are.
Many things stand in our way (or so we think): The obvious one is time, & the associated pressure from our stakeholders. This is a real problem, & in this talk I will discuss ways of addressing it.
But one constraint that isn't often discussed is a lack of compassion. This doesn't only come from others, it comes from ourselves. We don't forgive ourselves when we write bad code. We think it's all or nothing. We mutter about the trail of bad code left by our forbears & feel guilty about the bad code we leave behind ourselves.
Refactoring shouldn't be something that happens after the fact - it should be, & can be, part of every day development. But before we write good code we have to write bad code, & that's OK. As with most creative endeavours if you insist on making the first draft perfect you will never get anything out the door.
This talk is about kindness & forgiveness, & the paradox that the more you accept & handle bad code, the more likely it is that you will end up with good code.
About Clare
Clare Sudbery is an independent technical coach with 22 years of software engineering experience. She specialises in TDD, refactoring, continuous integration & other eXtreme Programming (XP) practices.
In 2009, Clare abandoned IT to retrain as a high school maths teacher but quickly returned to software, gaining new energy via XP. Clare runs the Coding Black Females' Return to Tech programme & co-ran Made Tech's academy. She has a passion for helping under-represented groups to flourish in tech.Clare hosted Season One of the acclaimed Making Tech Better podcast, & publishes notes & scribbles at medium.com/a-woman-in-technology, tinyurl.com/clare-wikiand insimpleterms.blog. She's also a published novelist & has presented workshops & talks at several national & international events & conferences.
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