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Tidying Tips
In a post called The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Code, Kent Beck outlines his philosophy on cleaning up code. The article results in a short list of easy-to-follow rules, which I'm sure he would agree are there to be broken.
In a post called The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Code, Kent Beck outlines his philosophy on cleaning up code. The article results in a short list of easy-to-follow rules, which I'm sure he would agree are there to be broken.
- If it’s hard, don’t do it
- Start when you’re fresh and stop when you’re tired
- Land each session’s work immediately
- Two reds is a revert
- Practice
- Isolate tidying
What To Tidy is a follow-up post in which Kent goes on to describe specific patterns to look out for.
This article describes the process you can follow to build the Imagick PHP extension from source, which can be handy if the version you are after has not been released via PECL.
In his recent talk about Laravel Nova at Laracon US, Taylor Otwell used a nice little shortcut to reset his demo app during the presentation.