Kevlin Henney Explained

Kevlin Henney is an English author, presenter, and consultant on software development. He has written on the subject of computer programming and development practice for many magazines and sites, including Better Software, The Register, C/C++ Users Journal, Application Development Advisor, JavaSpektrum, C++ Report, Java Report, EXE, and Overload. He is a member of the IEEE Software Advisory Board. Henney is also coauthor of books on patterns and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.

Henney has given keynote addresses at a number of conferences, including Agile, ACCU, DevTernity,^[1] DevWeek, Dutch PHP Conference, Embedded Systems Club, GeeCON, GOTO, Build Stuff, JAOO, JAZOON, Jfokus, NLUUG, OOP, PHPNW, SDC, Software Architect, VOXXEDDAYS, and XP Day.

Henney is a member of the ACCU, and gave the keynote address at the 2001 ACCU conference^[2] on the subject of writing less code, because "there is no code faster than no code" and "less code, equals less bugs" (of which he is an active presenter). He is also a speaker at OOPSLA, most recently speaking at OOPSLA 2005.^[3] In October 2009, Henney presented The Uncertainty Principle^[4] at the 2nd Annual PHP North West Conference in Manchester, UK. He has also been credited with the remark "...except for the problem of too many layers of indirection" in response to the famous aphorism of David Wheeler: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."^[5]

Bibliography

• Book: Frank Buschmann. Kevlin Henney. Douglas C. Schmidt. Douglas C. Schmidt. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 4: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing. 978-0-470-05902-9. John Wiley & Sons. 2007.
• Book: Frank Buschmann. Kevlin Henney. Douglas C. Schmidt. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 5: On Patterns and Pattern Languages. John Wiley & Sons. 978-0-471-48648-0. 2007.
• Book: Kevlin Henney. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. O'Reilly Media. 978-0-596-80948-5. 2010.
• Book: Richard Monson-Haefel. 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. O'Reilly Media. 978-0-596-52269-8. 2009.
• Book: Kevlin Henney. 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. O'Reilly Media. 978-1-4919-5269-6. 2017.

Notes and References

1. Web site: What to expect from DevTernity 2019?. Sizovs. Eduards. sizovs.net. September 2019. 2020-01-04.
2. Web site: ACCU Spring Conference 2001 Roundup . Thaddaeus Frogley . Thad's Homepage . 2005-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080514125419/http://thad.notagoth.org/accu_spring_2001/#minimalism#minimalism . 14 May 2008 . dead . dmy-all.
3. Web site: Revenge of the Nerds - OOPSLA 2005. 2005-10-23. Gregor. Hohpe . Gregor's Ramblings. 2021-05-12.
4. Web site: PHPNW09 KEYNOTE: KEVLIN HENNEY – THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. 2nd Annual PHP North West Conference. https://web.archive.org/web/20160806041333/https://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw09/?p=360. 2016-08-06. dead. 2021-05-12.
5. Book: Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think. Andy Oram. Greg Wilson. Diomidis Spinellis. Chapter 17: Another level of indirection. 8 August 2007. 279–291. O'Reilly and Associates. 9780596510046.