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Which blame viewer is that? Looks nice!

Textmate

During my last conference on human computer interaction, I tried to convince some scientists to open source their software. I’ve seen very nice stuff there.

But everyone was telling me, they won’t because their code is way too embarrassing.

I love the fact, that you’re talking about embarrassing code. Everyone writes it, most of them see it, few take the time to improve it ;)

@Ben S It’s from the Git Textmate bundle (by default the menu opens with CTRL +Shift+G) . I use it all the time, so handy.

Offtop: the font is pretty darn good! What is it?

My iPhone code is a hot, hot mess at the moment. I basically put aside proper object oriented code to get a prototype working, and then worked off of the prototype, and now… well… it’s not pretty…

I began the process of refactoring it recently but ultimately decided to keep it the way it is until I actually launch. There’s something to be said for simply getting things out the door and cleaning up your mess later. It would take me a week to clean it up and debug. Rather than trying to tie up the loose ends now, i’m just commenting my code as best I can with plans to refactor later.

Don’t be ashamed of your messy code :)

Letting other people see your sourcecode sometimes feels like letting people see you naked

This is why I use Ruby for only the simplest of things, and Java for everything else.

@Richard: Because you can’t write Ruby code very well? :P I don’t see what relevance language choice is in this case, it’s perfectly possible to write messy Java code too.

I actually find it easier to write messy code in Java ;)

Most of this code should be in a view. Then again, most of my code should undergo a review, so props to you guys for finding, sharing, and (presumably) fixing it.

It is clear from this code that companies love firm people.

:-)

Huh, it’s kinda like opening up an old tv set and looking at all that dust and complexity.

First impression is that there are insufficient comments and that the names haven’t been selected optimally for self documentation. In the interest of brevity, too much functionality is overloaded into too few lines of code, but this is a preference counter to popular concepts.

That said, it probably works, and from a functional standpoint has all the beauty of a hammer.

Now the idea of ‘blame’ is interesting. Many programmers will look at old code they’ve worked on and say, “I wouldn’t have done that!” This way of viewing revision history seems like a good way to use peer pressure to increase code quality.

@All

Am I the only person who does NOT like the new basecamphq.com?

I’d love to see some of your well-written Ruby code … mainly from controllers.

Well written controller code is boring code.

Jamis’s 5-year-old “end” is the cleanest part. :)