Devnology Podcast 033 - Michael Feathers

This episode features an interview with Michael Feathers, regular conference speaker, author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code and one of the deep thinkers on programming. We talk about various programming approaches and techniques and the effect they have on the way we create and maintain software systems. We touch upon subjects like functional programming, technical debt and computer science papers. Also listen to this episode to learn about his plans for a new book!

Follow Michael on twitter via @mfeathers and read his blog on http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com

This interview was recorded on the 25th of sept 2012 at the Peabody Opera House in St Louis during the Strangeloop conference.

Interview by @freekl and @mrijnAudio post-production by @mendelt

• Book: : Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers, 2004.


• Check the Strangeloop video schedule for release dates of recorded talks


• Michael wrote about the subject of his Strangeloop talk on the Line Break kata in this blogpost.


• Michael's blogpost from 2009: 10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) that is mentioned in this episode


• Book: Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It, Andy Oram & Greg Wilson, 2010.


• Video: Michael's keynote Code Blindness from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2011


• Video: Dealing with Dynamically Typed Legacy Code, Michael Feathers, NDC Oslo 2012

This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het Engels