Thomas Burkhart

Flutter GDE

Born 1971 Thomas Burkhart could be seen almost as a legacy system. Being almost 30 years in this industry led him to a lot of different technologies, like C++ with mfc, C#, microcontrollers in C and currently mobile App development with Flutter and Dart. What only view people know that he was also a professional magician and bakes his own bread.

Avoiding the dogma - a plea for mutable objects

Unfortunately there is too much advice given online about the right way to write software that often tends to be very dogmatic and is outright harmful if not understood correctly. One prime example is the demand that all objects should be immutable to avoid problems. I will show you why we should avoid these kind of dogmatic thinking and why immutability might not even be something you want to strive for. As an alternative I will introduce you to ProxyObjects as a more flexible alternative