Welcome to the first Spotlight series recorded at OSCON London 2016. Jerod talked with Katrina Owen, an accomplished speaker, creator of the excellent coding practice and feedback site, Exercism.io, and the co-author of 99 Bottles of OOP. Have you ever heard the story of how Katrina went from anonymous developer to sharing a byline with Sandi Metz? She shared all the details during this face-to-face chat.

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Featuring

• Katrina Owen – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub

Notes and Links

• The Changelog #225: 99 Practical Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz - Adam and Jerod talk with Sandi Metz about her beginnings on the mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.
• The Changelog #202: 23 Years of Ruby with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) - Adam and Jerod talk with Matz, the creator of the Ruby programming language, about where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.
• Exercism — Level up your programming skills
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) - is a programmers tale written by Sandi Metz, explaining object-oriented design (OOD) using realistic, understandable examples. POODR is a practical, readable introduction to how OOD can lower your costs and improve your applications.
  about how to write object-oriented code.
• 99 Bottles of OOP - a book by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen written as a practical guide to writing cost-effective, maintainable, and pleasing object-oriented code.
• Therapeutic Refactoring - a story about taking complicated, untested code and changing it in small, safe steps to make it easier to understand. It walks through the step-by-step process of adding characterization tests, as well as working through a classic refactoring, “Replace Method with Method Object”.