Tag Archives: maintainability

Review of The Art of Readable Code

The Art of Readable Code Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2012 When I saw this book, it seemed like a great idea. I’ve spent my entire career with legacy codebases, trying to make them better. A book that covers ways to make code more readable, and therefore, more maintainable is a wonderful… Read More »

Regular Expression Maintainablity

perl.com: Maintaining Regular Expressions [Jan. 16, 2004] Aaron Mackey does a wonderful job of suggesting more maintainable regular expression idioms. His use of (?{}) to assign the results of capturing parenthesis inline was particularly interesting to me. I may have seen it before, but this is the first time it made sense. The article goes… Read More »