In the words of Phil Haack, “I Love to code.”

I’m never happier than when crafting a new piece of functionality to delight the users of my software.

A few years ago I came to a truly horrible personal realisation: my code had too many defects. While I was still meeting deadlines and delivering working code, I was spending too much (way too much) of my time fixing things. Getting rid of defects that shouldn’t have been there in the first place is not a fun way to spend a day, a week or a month.

In this talk I pass on some of the things I’ve learnt about being a better developer - how I stay on top of what I’m doing, how I work to become a little bit better every day, and how I strive to write code that is simpler to write, easier to debug, and more resistant to defects in the first place.

Presentation

Audience Date Notes
Reserve Bank of New Zealand August 2014
Wellington .NET User Group September 2014
Auckland Code Camp 2014 September 2014
Xero Developers September 2014
Canterbury Software Cluster May 2015 Shorter 30m edition
Christchurch Code Camp 2015 May 2015 Revised 60m edition
COMPSOC, Canterbury University September 2015  
Wellington Code Camp 2016 April 2016  
Trade Me Dev Day 2016 July 2016 45m edition
Microsoft Ignite 2016 October 2016  

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