It’s Better to be Clear Than Clever (databoost.org)

In my years of coding I have had the opportunity to work with, or after, a wide range of types of programmers. Both self taught and professionally trained, and in small and fast paced companies there wasn’t always a set of coding standards in place leaving developers to do what was best in their opinion. Being exposed to such a wide range of approaches proved to be a good way of reading into how each developer thought. It certainly had its entertaining moments. Without a doubt, the biggest lesson extracted from all of this is to leave your ego out of your code, to go the extra mile and to be clear on not just what you are doing in a piece of code, but why. Context is king in code as well!