Code Quality :: DenkzeitWiki

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-beck/ --XP founder (KentBeck) explains how better applications can arise from the ashes of failure
The Demand for Software Quality -A Conversation with BertrandMeyer, Part I

Exception-Driven Development
- When a problem occurs in your application, always check first that the error was handled appropriately. If it wasn't, always fix the handling code first.

Michael Feathers on Patronizing Language Design
- Without bondage & discipline you are not an "engineer" or come even close but an "artist" or worse: a "cowboy coder". It's almost like a class distinction.
- When I read this, all I can do is hope that I never again have to maintain the code of free-spirit developers. Their dreams become my nightmares. A lot of the time, developers who complain about language restrictions want to do things that add little to no value while creating havoc for other developers. Whenever people work or live as a group, they must give up some personal freedoms. What is so hard to understand about this?
- http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/07/13/ending-the-era-of-patronizing-language-design

Spaghetti Code

http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000308.html --Learning to like early aborts
- Sometimes it is a good idea to quit early (short-circuit). The method is more readable then. Most likely.