Martin Fowler

For other people named Martin Fowler, see Martin Fowler (disambiguation).

Martin Fowler
Born	1963 (age 47–48) Walsall, England
Home town	Melrose, Massachusetts
Website
martinfowler.com

Martin Fowler is an author and international speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.

Martin Fowler started working with software in the early 1980s^[1] and has written six books on the topic of software development (see Publications). In March 2000, he became Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company.^[1]

Fowler is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with more than 15 co-authors. He maintains a bliki, a mix of blog and wiki. He popularized the term Dependency Injection^[2] as a form of Inversion of Control.

Martin Fowler was born in Walsall, England, and lived in London a decade before moving to United States in 1994. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts in the suburb of Melrose.^[1]

He went to Queen Mary's Grammar School for his secondary education.

Publications

• Fowler, Martin. Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-89542-0. 
• Fowler, Martin; Kent Beck. Planning Extreme Programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-71091-9. 
• Fowler, Martin (September 2003). UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd ed. ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-19368-7. 
• Fowler, Martin; Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts (June 1999). Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-48567-2. 
• Fowler, Martin; David Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, and Randy Stafford (November 2002). Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-12742-0.  (Jolt productivity award 2003 ^[3])
• Fowler, Martin (September 2010). Domain-Specific Languages. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-71294-3. 

Online presentations

• Keynote at RailsConf 2006
• An Introduction to Language Oriented Programming at JAOO 2006
• The Yawning Crevasse of Doom at QCon London 2007 (with Dan North)
• Does My Bus Look Big In This? at QCon London 2008 (with Jim Webber)
• Forging a New Alliance at ThoughtWorks Quarterly Technology Briefing, October 2008 (with Scott Shaw)
• Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries at QCon San Francisco 2008 (with Rebecca Parsons)
• Technology in the Obama Campaign at QCon London 2009 (with Zack Exley)
• Three Years of Real-World Ruby at QCon London 2009

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Martin Fowler's biography at his web site
2. ^ Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern at Martin Fowler's web site
3. ^ Jolt winners 2003

External links

• Home Page of Martin Fowler
• A Conversation with Martin Fowler
• The New Methodology, a paper on lightweight software development methodology
• Dependency Injection

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Date of birth	1963
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