[TYPO3-dev] "Clean code" at t3dd11 on July 8th

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Because my T3DD11 workshop is a little unusual, I want to give advance info 
about it.

As you probably know, most of topics at the coming T3DD11 are workshops. So 
they should contain more working than talking. This is good because it is 
easier to learn by seeing and doing than by sleeping on a boring lecture :)

I plan to divide my workshop to two parts. During the first part I will 
talk and show various examples of unclean code and explain why exactly that 
code is unclean and why you should not write your code this way. This would 
be a typical presentation with examples from the TYPO3 core. After showing 
those, I will explain what is clean code, what are benefits of it and how 
exactly you can write clean code. It is absolutely necessary to start from 
the talking part because there are some ideas that you need to hear before 
we proceed to a practical part.

For the practical part we will take a file from the TYPO3 core and attempt 
to change it according to "clean code" principles. This will be a live show 
(no prepared tricks). I do not know yet what file it will be. Today, as a 
part of Gerrit review, I came across t3lib_compressor and I thought may we 
try to improve that. It is a very clever piece of code but it is quite 
complex in programming. We will try to simplify it without loosing any 
functionality. If we succeed, we will make a patch request to Gerrit to 
commit our improvements.

I am going to use PhpStorm as the editor for the practical part. You are 
encouraged to bring a laptop if you have one and try doing the same things 
as I. I will comment all actions and explain why I do certain changes.

The aim of this talk is to improve our code and coding culture. I think it 
is important now because we have more and more contributors. We need to 
make sure that our code uses the best possible modern quality standards.

The talk is meant exclusively for programmers. So if you are a designer or 
a TypoScript writer or a support person, you will not benefit anything from 
attending. If you are a PHP developer, you may be interested.

-- 
Dmitry "itoldyou" Dulepov
TYPO3 core&security team member
E-mail: dmitry.dulepov at typo3.org
Web: http://dmitry-dulepov.com/