My last post in Aaron's series drew a mixed review from some readers, and I'm sure this one will do the same. But that's part of the fun! One of the biggest threats to maintainability is code that's not properly formatted. When I'm called in by a customer to debug some legacy code, often the first thing I'll have to do is re-format the code so ...

Aaron has recently been doing an absolutely fantastic series of posts detailing various ''bad habits'' that many of us pick up somewhere along the way. These coding anti-patterns aren't going to crash your server, but they will make your code more difficult to read and maintain. I'm enjoying Aaron's series so much that I've decided to join in the ...