Patrick McElhaney

Charlotte, NC

patrickmcelhaney.com

Age: 35

Spending a lot of time on ux.stackexchange.com these days. A few projects on GitHub. On Twitter I'm @patrick_mc.

Favorite Books for Programmers

Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
The Pragmatic Programmer by Hunt & Thomas
Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
Refactoring by Martin Fowler
The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper

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