Martin Fowler

Person · Open Library

Born

1963

Works

21

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

22

Total plays

42

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 75,814x

2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 48,627x

3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,497x

4. STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT

   · 1986 · cited 37,917x

5. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,878x

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Quotes

• “People also underestimate the time they spend debugging. They underestimate how much time they can spend chasing a long bug. With testing, I know straight away when I added a bug. That lets me fix the bug immediately before it can crawl off and hide. There are few things more frustrating or time-wasting than debugging. Wouldn't it be a hell of a lot quicker if we just didn't create the bugs in the first place?”
• “Transparency is valuable, but while many things can be made transparent in distributed objects, performance isn't usually one of them.”
• “One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is to avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.”
• “Often designers do complicated things that improve the capacity on a particular hardware platform when it might actually be cheaper to buy more hardware.”
• “Modeling Principle: Models are not right or wrong; they are more or less useful.”
• “It is commonly said that a pattern, however it is written, has four essential parts: a statement of the context where the pattern is useful, the problem that the pattern addresses, the forces that play in forming a solution, and the solution that resolves those forces. … it supports the definition of a pattern as "a solution to a problem in a context", a definition that [unfortunately] fixes the bounds of the pattern to a single problem-solution pair”

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Martin

Family name

Fowler

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Walsall

Occupation

computer scientist

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

software design

Official website

martinfowler.com

Image

Martin Fowler (2008).jpg

Residence

Melrose

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