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What particular practices, designs, languages/features enable very easy to maintain code?
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When an application is created which need to store data, an SQL database is used very often.
So did I in a lot of asp.net applications. The resulting applications have often an ORM like the entity framework and maybe a business layer.
So when such an application needs to be extended(let's say you…
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If I wanted to help a customer understand the degree of technical debt in his application, what would be the best metric to use? I've stumbled across Erik Doernenburg's code toxicity, and also Sonar's technical debt plugin, but was wondering what others exist.
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How would one know if the code he has created is easily maintainable and readable? Of course in your point of view (the one who actually wrote the code) your code is readable and maintainable, but we should be true to ourselves here.
How would we know if we've written pretty messy and unmaintainable…
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Sometimes you run into a situation where you have to extend/improve an existing code. You see that the old code is very lean, but it's also difficult to extend, and takes time to read.
Is it a good idea to replace it with modern code?
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I saw the answer to this question: How does thinking on design patterns and OOP practices change in dynamic and weakly-typed languages? There it is a link to an article with an outspoken title: Are Design Patterns Missing Language Features. But where you can get snippets that seem very objective and…
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What are some Java language features or Java related tools that you were embarrassed to find that you didn't know about? Examples for me are:
jmap
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Since it's the holiday season now and everybody's making wishes, I wonder - which language features you would wish PHP would have added? I am interested in some practical suggestions/wishes for the language. By practical I mean:
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