#code standards

[completedeveloperpodcast]

Characteristics of a Good Developer

Non-technical characteristics are valuable to being a good developer. A lot of developers seem to think that the job is only about technical skills, however not all problems we face are in the code.

Episode Breakdown 09:50 Lack of fear of using existing code.

“Even building a new house is more fun than fixing up an old one”

Developers like to build new things, rather than maintain old ones.…

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[noobcoder]

MaintainableCSS - an approach to writing modular, scalable and maintainable CSS

MaintainableCSS is an approach to writing modular, scalable and of course, maintainable CSS.

Yet another approach to write modular and maintainable CSS.

[longerhairworthilx]

Google’s Need Being Promptness Means He Need to Check Your Website

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[rubypostit]

Maintaining high code quality creates a non-trivial overhead and consumes real development cycles. Many people find it difficult to trade-off this overhead with the benefits and assume you have a binary choice: either move quickly with low code quality or move slowly with high code quality. Since startups optimize for a fast development cycle, people assume you have to do so with low code quality.

[cruzsebastian]

All code in any code-base should look like a single person typed it, no matter how many people contributed.

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[rubypostit]

Odors are communication devices. They exist for a reason and are usually trying to tell us something. Our code smells and it is trying to tell us what is wrong.

[maxchiu]

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[thoughtbot]

Exploring Coding Guidelines

At thoughtbot we’ve recently started to redo our outdated coding standards. We’ve taken a “consider everything” approach. Making the easy decisions by fiat and then opening up some of the decisions to the discussion of the entire group (with one person given ultimate responsibility for making the decision).

Its going well, but slowly, so far. When we did our original coding guidelines a few years ago, it was decided that we would use a different curly brace style than I was used to at the time. It took about two days to get used to the new format, but then after that, I couldn’t see them any other way.

My main point is that when it comes to guidelines, its important to be flexible. What may seem the “wrong” way to do something one day, can easily be the right way the next, if you commit to the change. And as programmers, what we may think are permanently ingrained ways of doing things, can almost certainly be changed.

Our new coding guidelines are pretty much entirely Ruby and Ruby on Rails focused. Anyone out there have any helpful hints or interesting stories about your Ruby and Rails coding guidelines?