When: Tuesday 3rd November 2009, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm

Where: UWE (University of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Room 2q49 (in Q block)

What: Credit Crunch Code – Time to Pay Back the Technical Debt

Who: Gary Short, MVP, Developer Express Developer Evangelist

Why: Because we all take shortcuts but we never quantify exactly what these shortcuts cost us - a little realisation goes a long way. And also because Gary Short was voted the Best Speaker By Presentation Skills at DDD South West this year.

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Abstract:
Technical debt is the cost of putting off good development practices. This debt, must be paid back to avoid the “interest payments” becoming crippling. This presentation will focus on a number of common developer (and project) anti-patterns that can lead to the build up of technical debt in a project and, having identified these behaviours, we’ll look at techniques to firstly quantify and then to mitigate against them.

Bio:
Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK. As well as C#, Gary also has an interest in dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, Ruby and Python.