HDNUG – October/09 Meeting – Recap

I attended the Houston .NET User Group October ’09 meeting last night. There was a good turnout of about 75-85 people in attendance.

Announcements -

• Next month Zain Naboulsi will be presenting on Windows 7 for developers
• There is an upcoming ASP.NET User Group that will likely be on the 4th Tuesday of each month – no dates set yet

Main topic -

Claudio Lassala gave a great talk titled Be a Professional Developer and Write Clean Code. Below are some of the points covered.

• What is clean code? Elegant and efficient, can be read and enhanced, simple and direct, etc…
• Computers do not care what your code looks like
• Name variables so that you don’t need comments

          Instead of –

     //Setting employee’s first name
     string field1 = “Rhonda” ;

          Use this –

     string employeeFirstName = “Rhonda”;

• If you have source control, there is no reason to keep code commented
• NDepend – a good tool that provides metrics for your code
• Functions should do one thing and do it well
• Vertical Distance – Declare variables close to where they are used. There is no need to declare all variables at the top of the program.

Presentation Materials for Be a Professional Developer and Write Clean Code

There were a lot more great points, but I had to leave before Claudio was finished. He did a great job of explaining how bad code should be rewritten.

Looking for a user group meeting to attend? Check out my Houston Tech Groups and Events page.

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Until next time…

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