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I usually remote in to the office most of the time but I decided to go to the office one day. I was sitting at my desk the other day and I overheard a very interesting and funny conversation.  It seems this Indian supervisor at work was talking on the phone (probably to the offshore team) and was annoyed that someone checked in Java classes that had a method with 600 lines. Who in they’re right mind would code such a unmaintainable monster?

No computer programmer that I have ever met from the newbie to the expert would ever think of coding like that. Perhaps they’re trying to get job security by writing code that they can only understand. This is not the old days like coders used to get away with that. It does not work like that in today’s work environment. It will only annoy people and make the programmer look bad.

All programmer’s know the maintaining code can sometimes be a nightmare. Writing unmaintainable code is not something programmer’s should strive for. Sometimes though the best example of what not to do is to actually someone how to do something. Here is a great article on How To Write Unmaintainable Code. Whoever follows this advice should never consider themselves a programmer. Doing this will cost you alot more hassle than it’s worth.

This video is a pretty cool video that talks about writing fast code for web sites. Once again Google presents another excellent presentation that anyone interesting in improving web site performance.