Harrie Verveer
Harrie Verveer has been working with PHP as a professional since 2004 and is currently employed as a senior PHP developer at bax-shop.nl. Bax-shop.nl is the largest web shop for sound, stage and studio equipment in the Netherlands and Belgium, and is quickly expanding to other countries in Europe as well. Harrie helped organizing the Dutch PHP Conference in 2011 and 2012 and is a regular speaker at conferences and user group events around the world, where he shares his experience and knowledge gained from working with a wide variety of technologies. In his spare time Harrie enjoys playing tennis, playing golf and playing guitar in his own cover band.
Conference Day 1
Software Architecture in an Agile Age
15:00 - 15:50 Saturday 4th October
In an age where agile development methods are widely adopted, properly designing the architecture of software beforehand seems to have become a lost art. After all, there’s much to say for just starting off with a small piece of working code and building upon that - while refactoring if needed. However, such theories are often (wrongly) interpreted as an excuse to never design anything ever again, and the refactoring step is often being ‘forgotten’ because the focus on the bigger picture is lost. This means your little gem is likely to eventually turn into an enormous out-of-control behemoth, that nobody can either understand or maintain.
In the past we’ve seen that it’s pretty much impossible to design entire applications into detail, but thinking about what you’re about to build (even if it’s just by drawing some quick sketches for a module you’re working on) can often be very revealing for yourself, helpful for your coworkers, and can mean the difference between software that’s easy to work with or a nightmare to maintain.
