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Martin Fowler

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Walsall, England, The United Kingdom

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http://martinfowler.com/

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Martin Fowler (b. 1963) is a software engineer, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, and an outspoken advocate for best practices in enterprise software design, particularly in regard to agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming. ...more

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Communicating the technical vision of an infrastructure platform

The next installment of Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd's article on infrastructure platforms looks how to communicate the technical vision of platform and how to understand the platform from the users' point of view.

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Martin Fowler’s books

Average rating: 4.13 · 17,576 ratings · 864 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (Contributor), Don Roberts (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 8,815 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture 4.12 avg rating — 3,876 ratings — published 2002 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language 3.80 avg rating — 1,515 ratings — published 1997 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Domain-Specific Languages (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) 3.87 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models 3.85 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Continuous Integration 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Advanced Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML (SIGS Reference Library, Series Number 12) by Martin Fowler (Foreword), James J. Odell 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knowledge Management 95 Success Secrets - 95 Most Asked Questions on Knowledge Management - What You Need to Know really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
― Martin Fowler

tags: code-smells, codes, programming, refactoring

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“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”
― Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

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“Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.”
― Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

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