writing good code

[ruebenramirez]

I discovered the goto; channel on youtube and found some great talks:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA4-b7hvWhg
  • functional javascript code
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Efy4RB_kw
  • this is how I want to work
• [ ] make notes of these talks

[ruebenramirez]

twitter for goto; https://twitter.com/GOTOcon

[ruebenramirez]

stop writing case and else statements! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Efy4RB_kw&feature=youtu.be&t=27m57s

[ruebenramirez]

"these practices came from the smalltalk world" -- ? https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/smalltalk-best-practice/9780132852098/

[ruebenramirez]

learn all the refactoring tricks - https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/refactoring-improving-the/0201485672/

[ruebenramirez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fy_xidc11w

Fred George recommends asynchronous system development through use of an "Event Bus"

Kafka is one example: http://kafka.apache.org/

• built by linkedin - released as open source
• rabbitmq works also
• you'll probably want to pair with smaller/faster message queues (e.g. ZeroMQ, etc.)