Devnology Podcast 041 - Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas is the Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs,
which specializes in emerging software technologies and
practices. Dave is a popular speaker with an impressive breadth
of business experience and technical depth. He is an ACM
Distinguished Engineer and has served on the awards committee for
the past 3 years. He is also an adjunct research professor at
Queensland University of Technology in Australia and Carleton
University in Canada. Dave serves on the program committees for
many technology conferences and is founder of the YOW! Australia
conference.


In this interview Dave shares his views on how to deal with large
legacy systems and still be innovative. We also discuss his
opinions on software development methods and education. Be ready
for some strong opinions!


This interview was recorded on the 19th of June 2013 at the GOTO
Amsterdam conference


Interview by @freekl and @marcelvanommen
Links for this podcast:

Dave's website on http://www.davethomas.net has info on his
publications and presentations

Dave's slidedeck for his presentation "Legacy Evolution - The
Innovation Opportunity" is available from the GOTO website here.

From the GOTO conference 2011 is Dave's talk 'Mature legacy
seeking sexy new technology for fun and profit extracting gold
from legacy code'

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