OOP’s, They Went Too Far with Woody Pewitt

Join us for Episode 10 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this special episode David and Woody talk about:

  • Dogfooding: Woody talks about the app to rent scooters and bikes that aren’t user friendly. Even the one from Uber.
  • WTF Were They Thinking?: David discusses companies not providing training/ education for their developers.

Guest

In this special episode, Woody discusses the over use of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) that end up making code complex for no good reason. He also shares how he goes about creating types properly when it comes to OOP, even for microservices. David chimes in that most of the code he sees at work does not use enough proper use of OOP.

29bedb10d614565749506d1a9dbf4817_400x400Woody Pewitt has held about every job related to software development from developer, product manager, director or development, director of architecture and many more in between. What he really enjoys is using cutting edge technologies to making software that wows the customer and then sharing how it was built.

Before his time in software, Woody was an electronic technician in the United States Navy. Woody lives in San Diego and has three boys that keep him on the run!


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Next Episode

The next episode will feature Dogfooding & WTF Where They Thinking along with a special episode recorded Mauritius. Have a comment or suggestion? Want to be a guest on the show? Click here to contact us.