Leverage

Let’s add a Lever to our content objects. Herein, I make a prediction. Will I be correct? My prediction is that installing the Lever will lead to code improvement, though I do not say whether it’ll be before installation, during, or after, or any of the other four non-zero combinations thereof. I often make the point that I think it’s best in Real Life™ to focus refactoring and code improvement where we’re actually working for “feature” reasons, rather than on code that could use a little improvement but isn’t being worked with. My reasoning is that we have limited time to improve code, and that we do best to improve the code that’s impacting our work, not code that isn’t really bothering anyone. I do not always follow that advice, even though I have the greatest respect for the fellow who gave it, because one of the main points of my work here is to show how we can improve code in very small steps, quick hits, so that we don’t need to find vast tracts of time to make things better.…