Refactoring is part of every task
Think of refactoring as the equivalent of washing your hands after using the restroom. It’s just something you always do as a matter of common decency.
Think of refactoring as the equivalent of washing your hands after using the restroom. It’s just something you always do as a matter of common decency.
I first came across the saying How you do anything is how you do everything, in the sense that you should afford the same diligence and care to every part of your life or work as you would the things that you especially care for and value, in one of Gregg Hurwitz The Nowhere…
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Yesterday I gave a talk on Clean Coding for colleagues at the bank. It’s been a while since I’ve held any kind of talk to anyone, so I was a little bit nervous. That nervousness quickly turned to adrenalin and, I hope, positive energy for the crowd. 40 or so developers and stakeholders. I…
I’m currently working on a bit of legacy code. Good code, to be sure, with a rather low technical debt due to the care and hard work by previous programmers. But of course, there are things that stick out. An hour or so ago, I started to refactor an old method that was populating…