Mike Hogan’s maintainability patterns

Two good articles by Mike Hogan: Maintainability Pattern: Write less code and Maintainability Pattern: Manage Dependencies.

I heard a good analogy from some folks who do XP training near here. In a software shop, code is your inventory and it’s something to be managed well. Having vast numbers of lines of code is not necessarily something to be proud of… you want to have just the right number of lines.