Comments on: Beauty in less code

By: Mike Stickel

Mike Stickel — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:24:40 +0000

It has taken a long time for me to get to the point where I can optimize/clean my own code and I love it. After a certain point I think all developers ? at least the good ones ? do this. It is absolutely the best way to work IMO.

By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:00:07 +0000

I do this as well. My first pass on a project is very very rough, a “get to the idea” type of pass. Then I go back through to make sure it can take the load. Then I release it, then whenever I revisit the code I do exactly as you’ve said, I throw out the parts that are redundant, and do my best to make it as clean as possible.

By: Veracon

Veracon — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:19:10 +0000

Thanks for fixing it, just one tiny mistake; it’s *args (asterisk), not _args. ;)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:24:33 +0000

Veracon: I fixed it for ya :) Just some strange Markdown parsing stuff.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:59:29 +0000

Hear hear! Good words. It’s not always easy to want to go back and refactor code. If it works, don’t break it, right? But I think it’s especially important, as you add features, to think about how the new code interacts with the old code, and find ways to simplify existing stuff.

By: Veracon

Veracon — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:09:32 +0000

Where did the indentation go? :O

By: Veracon

Veracon — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:08:55 +0000

I agree! Though I don't use Rails (or Ruby for that sake), I always do my best to keep my code clean. That's also why I'm writing a tiny Python framework that does what I need and nothing more (unlike Django or like). I'm hoping that a common page might just look something like this:

def index(self, \*args):
    View('index').render(\*args)

By: Tristan Dunn

Tristan Dunn — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 07:21:33 +0000

That’s the same reason why I love Rails. Now if I could only settle on one idea and complete it in Rails, that’d be great.

By the way, your tag links don’t work.