Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 40 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects. He has authored "landmark" books on Agile Programming, Extreme Programming, UML, Object-Oriented Programming, C++ Programming and Clean Code. He has published dozens of articles in various trade journals. Today, he is one of the software industry's leading authorities on Agile software development and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows. He is a former editor of the C++ Report and writes regular blogs at http://cleancoder.posterous.com/.

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[Kirill Tishechkov]

Very good talk/

[gosucoaching]

This video has very high value in general! *coming from !Ruby guy*

[ali shah]

I have been searching on the web for some resources for this architecture and found two/three ruby apps which implemented this architecture. I am new php developer looking for some resources that can eloborate on this theoratically and some (easy) code be really helpful.

[uniqueadress]

Testable means different things to different people. Unit-testable is different for example.

Anyways, I think one of the nice insights here is how command/view logic is isolated. I think a failure of MVC/MVP descriptions is that views or presenters are shown acting directly on models. But in Martin's example there are many additional classes that do this (Request, Response, View Model). Similarly we need extra models to avoid depending on the db. Its not advanced architecture but it counts.

[uniqueadress]

The original MVC is probably described somewhere else, but a worthy investment is "Design Patterns" by the Gang of Four (aka Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Richard Helm, Erich Gamma). MVP is described in a paper you can find by searching for "Potel MVP" but I think Martin brings in some ideas from a Martin Fowler posting on UI architectures (that you can find on the MVP wiki page in the references)

Clean Code is also really good, even if it seems repetitive.

[MrApplewine]

Where can I find this architecture explained in a way for a new software engineer? Is there a book that explains this? I only got it partially.

[Alexander Paramonov]

fking awesome!

[Srikanth Shreenivas]

Not sure what was the point of the talk apart from make your code testable. Not sure what was the word "Architecture" in title of talk meant!

[Dave Brondsema]

Nitpick to one of his points: The blueprints had more detail than just the topmost level of architecture. If you expanded the directories to see details like file names, the domain of the rails app would be evident.