You Google "Martin Fowler" and the snippet of text that accompanies his personal website is "Object-oriented programming expert and consultant, one of the leade

You Google "Martin Fowler" and the snippet of text that accompanies his personal website is "Object-oriented programming expert and consultant, one of the leaders in refactoring, author of the book 'Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code'" He's a self-proclaimed "expert" and a "leader". Yes, he's basically saying right there that he is an authority on writing code. That being said, I've read some of his Refactoring book awhile ago, and it's mostly good advice from what I remember.