Who is Martin Fowler?

The event has been rescheduled for Feb 25. Sign up here:
http://connect.thoughtworks.com/TechnologyForumAustin/

Martin Fowler (@martinfowler) is the Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company. He is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

I found out that Martin was speaking in town, and signed up immediately to attend. Why?

When I first started studying UML as part of object-oriented programming, one of the two books I used was UML Distilled by Martin Fowler. When trying to get my hands around several large integration projects at Data Junction (RIP), I kept of copy of Martin's Patterns of Enterprise Architecture by the sofa. On my bookshelves, you'll also find Martin's book on Refactoring. Martin was Kent Beck's co-author on Planning Extreme Programming. I am continually referring friends to a chapter that he contributed to Enterprise Integration Patterns.

That's why I'm going, but why should you go?

Martin is a big picture guy. Many of the concepts in software methodogy that people are studying now, years ago Martin was helping to formulate. It might be a good idea to take note of what he's talking about now.

Here's the details:
Software Development in the 21st Century
Speaker Martin Fowler
When Thursday, Feb. 25
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where The University of Texas at Austin
Commons Learning Center
10100 Burnet Road
Bldg. 137
Austin, TX 78758
Register at: http://connect.thoughtworks.com/TechnologyForumAustin/