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Graham Lea

Notes from YOW! 2013: Hadi Hariri on ‘Refactoring Legacy Codebases’

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Graham Lea

I attended Day 1 of YOW! Sydney 2013 and thought some people might get something useful out of my notes. These aren’t my complete reinterpretations of every slide, but just things I jotted down that I thought were interesting enough to remember or look into further.

Hadi Hariri is a Developer and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. He spoke at YOW! about refactoring legacy codebases.

Hadi started by offering reasons for refactoring:

increase the understandability of the code
decrease the impact of change
reduce the cost of change

He described how refactoring relies on culture: Continue reading →

Why You’ve Never Heard About Steve Jobs’ Skateboarding Prowess

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Graham Lea

… and the secrets of 7 other famously successful people.

There would be few adults in the western world who have not heard of Steve Jobs. A pioneer of personal computing, an entrepreneur of unrivalled clout, one-time owner of the world’s most successful digital animation studio, the man who took the helm of an almost bankrupt computer company and transformed it into the most valuable business in the world.

But have you ever heard about Steve Jobs’ skateboarding skills? Continue reading →