Clean Code

Functional Application Services

Each business use case or key transaction in your application can be modelled as a unique, explicit application service. Modelled this way, and named as verbs, application services accentuate key business concepts — improving the alignment between your problem domain and…

Please Use The Cascade Rule

Amongst all the hype of shiny new technologies, fashionable working practices and clever design patterns, sometimes I think the absolute basics of writing readable code are ignored or discarded as boring. I can’t think of a more saddening example than the unloved cascade rule.

Is the code better?

As long as there is night, there will be day. As long as
there is twitter, there will be DHH posting “robust” opinions on there. Recently he was
making comments like this:

The Contentious Controller

I laughed to myself when I realised how I conceptualise controllers. I went from a fresh-faced beginner who lumped all their logic in there to a clean code aficionado who took SRP out of context and had an abstraction for almost every method.

Clean Code Tricks — Intention Revealing Messages

Intro

It’s easy to dismiss “clean code” as a myth or “only for the
perfectionist”, and who am I to say that is wrong? Well, I can’t say it, what I
will say is that I have found clean code to be real, to be…