David Heinemeier Hansson

Medium

Writing for Medium, Christophe Limpalair ( from Linux Academy ) interviews David Heinemeier Hansson.

The post is here.

Points

Here are some good points from the post.

1. Code Presentation
2. Code Quality
   • Bad Looks
     • Having methods that are 15 lines long and do 5 different things
     • Tons of global variables
     • Poorly named variables
     • Poor commenting
3. Follow Standards
   • Look to see available standards and used them
   • Rather, than develop everything from scratch
4. Read Books
   • Kent Beck
     • Smalltalk best practice patterns
   • Robert Cecil Martin
     • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
   • Martin Fowler
     • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
5. Open Source Contributions
   • While David emphasized that you do not need to have contributed to open source projects, it can be very beneficial.
   • Not only does it give you extra practice at making your code better, but you also make connections.
6. Write Code
   • For the last test of their hiring process, Basecamp makes you write code for them. They pay you to work on a side project so they can judge you on your skillset.
   • Once you go through that process with a number of candidates, it’s very clear who you need to hire.
   • You get to see how they work, think, and solve problems.

 

Artifacts

Presentation

Presentation – Worrisome

 

Presentation – Better

My Take

Commented Out Code

1. Remove commented out code if you have not re-added them back in while
   • I suppose place a date annotation indicating the date you originally commented it out
   • And, may be the premise
   • I suppose it will help to place commented out code in its own function
     • Original Code can be more easily identified
     • And, compared to revised one

Owed

We owe a lot to guys such as David Heinemeier Hansson and Christophe Limpalair.

Inclusive :-

1. Writing great software
2. Sharing stringent principles

There is so much I happily lived with and now I can start to correct just because someone took the time to point it out.