SPaMCAST 623 - Five Lines of Code, Refactoring, A Conversation with Christian Clausen

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Software Process and Measurement Cast 623 features my interview with Christian </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Dr. Lambda” Clausen, author of  Five Lines of Code from Manning Publications. Dr. Lambda delivers advice on why refactoring is a necessity and how to refactor effectively.  Clean code is not an option, refactoring is a requirement for being good at coding. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buy a copy of the book at Manning using the code podspam20</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The link is</span> <a href= "http://mng.bz/r2Og"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://mng.bz/r2Og</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Lambda’s Bio</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christian “Dr. Lamda” Clausen works as a Technical Agile Coach teaching teams how to properly refactor their code. Previously he worked as a software engineer on the Coccinelle semantic patching project, an automated refactoring tool. He has an MSc in computer science and five years’ experience teaching software quality at a university level.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://medium.com/@thedrlambda</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter: @thedrlambda</span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cue the eerie sound effects from low budget science fiction movies that signal time travel. After publishing our re-read of Chapter 19 last week, Steve Tendon sent me a message, “where is chapter 18?” I nearly responded right after chapter 17 but a little voice told me to check. Low and behold, I had not addressed Full-Kitting as Ongoing Executive Activity, otherwise known as chapter 18. Today, we go back in time and review the first chapter in Part 6 of</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Tame-your-Work-Flow-knowledge-work/dp/9995744082/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=tameflow&qid=1590248003&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=softprocandme-20&linkId=b94ac7f7a492a50b4a5fd5e04e86