Avoiding Shortcuts: Critical Thinking Skills for Developers

Drupal 8 is out, and it does so much out of the box. But... do you find yourself getting used to all this pre-built functionality and becoming a little bit lazy?

To produce our best work, we have to constantly be on guard against the shortcuts we want to make in our day-to-day thinking. We aren't the reliable, logical machines we get to program. Our brains need a hypervisor - in the form of a critical thinking framework.

Come to this session to learn about key critical thinking skills to use when designing and developing your code. Discover how easy it is for us to fall into fallacies during architecture, project planning or code reviews. Finally, learn how to avoid these traps and walk away with a set of mental heuristics to improve your code and projects. No matter if you are new to development (or Drupal), or have been writing HTML since <center> tags were in vogue, there's something for you at this session.