Overview

I just don't understand why anyone would want to write the same old low-level code to accomplish a particular task each and every time they need it? Unfortunately, the practice is a lot more common than you might think!

I don't know about you, but I hate maintaining code like that.

In 1991, John F. Woods wrote:

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

In essence, code not only for yourself, but also for future developers who will have to maintain your code.

What Is Luminous Code

Luminous Code is a collection of projects, namespaces, classes, methods, and extention methods, that I wrote to keep the code that I need to write in my various projects as DRY as possible! It's driven by my own needs as a developer, but I'm more than happy to share it with anyone who might find it useful, and to accept suggestions, pull requests or bug reports.

Whenever I find myself writing the same code again, I first extract it into a new class or a new method, as a lot of experienced developers will do. Then as soon as I can, I'll transfer the code to the appropriate Luminous Code namespace so that I can reuse it myself in various projects, and also release it for others to benefit from as well.

Also, if it's taken me some time to figure out how to do something new, I'll add it into the framework too. That way I'm not constantly reinventing the wheel, so to speak. I figure it out once, not every time I need the same task done.

Luminous Code helps you to:

• keep your code as DRY as possible
• write code that is more easily maintained
• write code that has clear and obvious intent

Clear and Obvious Intent

It isn't really all that easy to understand what multiple lines of low-level code are actually designed to accomplish when you come back to the code days, weeks, months, or even years later! Without working your way through each line, you have no real idea what the intent of the code is.

Which lines of code would you rather be maintaining?

(this code - example 1)

or

(this code - example 2)

The intent of any code that you write should be clear and obvious to anyone who is using or maintaining your code (even if it's you). One of the main reasons that I wrote the Luminous Code was so I could use code that has clear and obvious intent.

Donations Appreciated

If you happen to find Luminous Code useful and would like to support future development, maybe you could shout me a coke (as I don't actually drink coffee or beer, lol).