London PHP Meetup: Phew! That Code Stinks, Let's Fix It!
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As developers, we get paid to write code, but the reality is that we spend the vast majority of our time reading rather than writing.
The Bad News:
Most code stinks. Its poorly structured, hard to read and a nightmare to maintain. When our manager or client comes to us asking for a simple new feature, our first reaction is usually "Sure! That's pretty basic, it should be quick."
Then we open the code and start digging in...
The Good News:
Take a good long look at that big ball of mud or bowl of spaghetti code base. Its scary. The stuff of developers' nightmares. But if we zoom in, if we hyper focus on just one tiny part, we find that the big mess is actually a bunch of really small messes and those we can fix!
Let Brad Brothers describe to you his process for identifying these code smells and implementing their prescribed refactors. Whether you're brand new to object oriented code or a guru, at the very least this talk will open a dialog.