No SOLID Evidence - Exploring the 5 principles to improve your code

Derek Graham is a Principal Software Developer working for Sage in the North East of England.

He co-organizes NE Bytes, a monthly .Net community get-together and Agile North East, both hosted in Newcastle city centre.

He is an Extreme Programmer, an Infrequent Sketchnoter, a Collector of Programming Languages, a Speaker, a Mob Programmer, a Test-Driven Developer and Struggling Agilista. He is also a STEM ambassador, microbit hacker and project lead for the "Makers & Creators" events at Campus North with Tech for Life UK.

His main areas of interest are in using agile methods to help improve what we ship, test-driven development, unit testing, continuous and deliberate learning, visual thinking, design and, of course, code.

Derek's 'No SOLID Evidence' session is aimed at developers who are sold SOLID as a thing to aspire to but don't have the experience to know what's wrong with it.

The SOLID principles are something that everyone agrees are a good thing and are definitely doing but few people can tell you what they are. Derek will explore the detail of the five principles, why they aren't what you think they are, and what you can do instead to improve the code you write.