I have been working in IT for the best part of two decades. Istarted work as a programmer with IBM in Great Britain after graduating in Computer Science in 1985, and since then has worked in computing in the United States, Poland, and most recently Belgium, where I have worked as an IT contractor for a number of companies, both practicing and encouraging refactoring.
Though experience does not necessarily equate to knowledge or wisdom, I can at least claim a long experience in the world of software development. I have been programming since the days of ticker-tape and punched cards; I was taught to do object-oriented programming in IBM even before object-oriented programming languages existed outside research fields (we were taught to do OO in C), and as an IT contractor I consider it part of my profession to know as much as possible about all the technologies and methodologies which emerge.
In between contracting and writing my book on refactoring, I am learning Dutch, and have created a number of websites, of course applying strongly the principles of refactoring.
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