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Don’t refactor without unit tests

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Brandon Savage is writing a series on code improvement using a code example (starting with Peer Review: Taking Code And Making It Better). In other words, it’s about refactoring, which is practically my favorite subject. Although I don’t agree with all of it, it’s mostly good advice. I recommend it.
That said, [...]

Most confused discussion in the known universe

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How confused can a discussion get? As confused as the discussion in the comments to Benjamin Eberlei’s Explicit Code requires no comments – Only bad code does. This discussion has a fake identity, and nobody seems to notice. As you can see, the blog post claims to be about code [...]

Show me your code comments and I’ll show why you don’t need them

Brandon Savage has written a blog post On Code Commenting And Technical Debt. He believes that code comments are a good way to minimize technical debt.

I’m surprised to find the term technical debt mentioned without being accompanied by the term refactoring. Refactoring is generally recognized (outside the PHP world) as the way to pay down [...]