Developer Best Practices - The secret sauce for coding modern software

Develop Best PracticesThe secret sauce for coding modern software

Kosala Nuwan Perera@kosalanuwan

Peter Falk told to Paul Reiser…

get some paperput it in a typewritertype FADE IN ... and keep typing.

Problem, solution, and solve…

Biggest mistake of all time is jump straight to “Solve”.

People really don’t get this!

Every feature is a commitment, a financial debt, even if its not used.

Did you know that you arewoefully stuck in the Appland?Well, now you know

Things that teams literally struggle- More granular tracing and auditing- User telemetry- Support for flexible DevOps- Modularization- Hybrid could opportunities- End-to-end message security- Powerful API for Public and Private- Asynchronous UX- Support for Multiplicity of clients- More efficient background processing



A computer program is the most complicated thing on

earth, second to a woman's brain. I just told this and she second it

How do you make things so complicated? - Rigid Small change causing cascade changes.

- Fragile Breaks in many places due to a single change.

- Immobility Cannot reuse in other projects due to risks/high efforts.

- Design debt Technical debt by taking shortcuts?

- Environment debt Technical debt by not running build, test, and other tasks.

- Needless complexity- Needless repetition- Opacity Cannot/hard to understand. Requires reengineering.



















Why would you care? - Respond to change- Cost of change- Financial debt

You have a limited number ofkeystrokes left in your hands before you “die”.

What can you try Today? - Naming conventions- Methods- Design principles- Dependency injection- Encapsulate conditionals- Polymorphism to If/Else or

Switch/Case- Exception over return codes

Read more at Crockford's guidelines for JavaScript and Google guidelines for JavaScript

Convention ExampleApp Root PascalCase ApprovelyFiles camelCased autoComplete.controller.j

sConstructors PascalCase WebRequestNamespaces camelCased but it’s unusual to

have two parts in one word though

Approvely.widgets

Functions camelCased toStringNon-constant variables including params

camelCased

Constants but ES5 has no constants

Capitalized or PascalCase CLICK_EVENT, Events.Click

Enums but ES5 has no enums

Capitalized or PascalCase. Singular for non-flags and plural for flags

HTTP_STATUS_CODE, HttpStatusCode, BindingFlags





class Sword{ public void Hit(string target) { ... }}

class Samurai{ private Sword sword; public Samurai() { sword = new Sword(); } public void Attack(string target) { sword.Hit(target); }}

Usage:Samurai warrior = new Samurai();warrior.Attack("the evildoers");

interface IWeapon{ void Hit(string target);}

class Sword : IWeapon{ public void Hit(string target) { ... }}

class Shuriken : IWeapon{ public void Hit(string target) { ... }}

class Samurai{ public Samurai(IWeapon w) { ... } public void Attack(string target) { ... }}

Usage:Shuriken weap1 = new Shuriken();Samurai warrior1 = new Samurai(weap1);warrior1.Attack("the evildoers");

Sword weap2 = new Sword();Samurai warrior2 = new Samurai(weap2);warrior2.Attack("the evildoers");



if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") { var flag = true; $(".js-right-arrow").click(function () { if (flag) { $(".js-slider-frame").animate({ left: "-130px" }, 1000); flag = false; } else { $(".js-slider-frame").animate({ left: "236px" }, 1000); flag = true; } return false; });} else { var flag = true; $(".js-right-arrow").click(function () { if (flag) { move(".js-slider-frame").set("left", -130).duration("1s").end(); flag = false; } else { move(".js-slider-frame").set("left", 236).duration("1s").end(); flag = true; } return false; });}



var flag = true, isIE = navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer";

$(".js-right-arrow").click(function () { if (isIE) { $(".js-slider-frame").animate({ left: flag ? "-130px" : "236px" }, 1000); } else { move(".js-slider-frame").set("left", flag ? -130 : 236).duration("1s"); } flag = !flag; return false;});



When you are matured with these

principles and patterns, it will become difficult for you to think without those.

Where to begin?- Good Editor- Static analysis tools- Builds- Test automation tools- Source control- Continuous integration

What other things that go with it? - Open source- Code kata- Pair programming- Design/Code reviews- Peer reviews

I swear to write software, more useful software and nothing but well-crafted

softwareso help me God!

- The Software Craftsmanship Oath

Happy Coding

Kosala Nuwan Perera@kosalanuwan