Ninja Secrets of the Enumerable Masters - Presenter Michael Feathers, Groupon
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Join us at Groupon's new office in Palo Alto! Pizza and beer will be served.
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Presenter: Michael Feathers Member of Technical Staff, Groupon (http://www.groupon.com) Author, Working Effectively with Legacy Code (http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321995199&sr=1-1) Ninja Secrets of the Enumerable Masters The Enumerable module and the Array class in Ruby have quite a few methods - some of them are rather obscure. Few people realize that just about all of what you need to do functional programming is baked into these constructs. In this talk, Michael will describe some interesting ways to compose methods on Enumerable and talk about where and when the functional style is appropriate.
Bio: Michael Feathers is member of the technical staff at Groupon. Prior to joining Groupon, he was the Chief Scientist at Obtiva, a Ruby on Rails consultancy. Over the past 15 years he has consulted with hundreds of organizations, helping them general software design issues, process change, and code revitalization. Michael is also the author of the book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" (Prentice Hall, 2004) and is a sought after presenter at national and international conferences.
Schedule:
6:00 - 6:45PM Networking, Pizza, Refreshments
6:45 - 7:00PM Announcements, Introduction
7:00 - 7:45PM Presenter: Michael Feathers: Ninja Secrets of the Enumerable Masters
7:45 - 8:30PM More Networking - RAFFLE - TBD!
See you then! Happy Holidays!
For the Love of Ruby,
Jeanine Swatton