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Sandi metz is wicked smart - any of her talks online or books are worth checking out.

Saudi Metz does an extremely good job at explain how to use 'single responsibility' to make even huge codebases maintainable.

While it takes about the same to go from Metz to Dijon, a 2 hour drive.

Interestingly, it's not just Wired taking it out of context– Metz (the moderator) is actually the author of this piece.

It's not quite as easy to follow as the Sandi Metz book I mentioned above, but worth the effort.

Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz is a fun read packed with good principles for working in Ruby that are applicable in general to object oriented programming.

Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, by Sandi Metz Even if you code in a language other than Ruby, this book is quite easy to follow and chock full of great OO advice.

Honestly, what you said never happens in practice (no one is abusing macros like that) but what I said is literally taught by Sandi Metz in her book Practical OOP in Ruby.

Sandi Metz talk "All the Little Things"[0] is amazing for understanding the general concepts around refactoring OOP code.

Recently as an exercise I worked through the examples in Sandi Metz's "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby" using Javascript.

However, I think Sandi Metz put it well in Practical Object-Oriented Design In Ruby when she said: "Concrete code is easy to understand but costly to extend.

Avdi Grimm, Sandi Metz) shrug this inherent limitation of Rails off, and I find it really weird.

The point is that Metz->Dijon, two cities almost next to each other, takes as long as Lille to Montpellier, two cities on opposite ends of the country due to the centralization of the rail system.

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz.