Change is hard - make your life easy by making code simple

Slide contents

• Change is hard
• What is this talk about
• What is this talk about
• I can’t tell you anything you don’t already know
• Lets talk about code
• Bad code
• Good code
• Good enough code
• Good enough code
• The only constant that we know for sure in software development
• The startup expansion
• Lets build something new
• How fast can you build it?
• In software development cost = time
• Don’t reinvent the wheel
• Initial cost in software development
• Just do it®
• That is only first draft
• Cost of change
• Its harder to read code than to write it
• Just in time refactor
• But how?
• There is no silver bullet
• Simplicity
• You need to care about your code
• Back to basics
• Know how to test your code
• Try to make the code readable
• “Code is like humor, when you have to explain it, its bad”
• Rename rename rename
• Try to express intent
• First rule of writing functions is that they should be small.
• Second rule of writing functions is that they should be smaller
• Question everything
• Care, clean & question