After the keynote, this is an interesting slowdown - a "roundtable" discussion of various software boks. First up: Beck's "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns". The book dates back to 1997, so the discussion is almost nostalgic in nature - a lot of the people here started in Smalltalk, and they have fond memories of their work in it.

The panel liked Beck's book - the take away seems to be that yes, it's Smalltalk specific - but a lot of the lessons in the book are generally applicable and have to do with communicating intent between developers through well written code.

The group discussed other books, and it was a nice break from the more highly interactive "think" sessions after Tuesday evening :)

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