Becoming a prepper

You may think that because I was born in Oklahoma and live in Texas, I could be one of those crazy people who runs around in the woods preparing for the imminent end of the world. Hey, let’s try to keep my personal life out of this! However, when I tell you that I want you to become a prepper, it has nothing to do with a conspiracy theory or end-of-times rhetoric. Instead, it has to do with a fundamental transformation that is likely to be happening in your professional life. Unlike the radical political transformations that concern most real-world preppers, ours are hopefully fully beneficial, with the aim to make us better at our craft. This chapter is geared toward preparing you to use patterns. Relying on patterns to improve your code doesn’t make sense if the code you’re working with doesn’t conform to the following conditions:

• Sports a high level of organization
• Structured for modification with minimal risk
• Testable...