First post, new blog; Summer is here

So the heading doesn’t make sense, but this is my first post on my new blog; ICodeNazi. Please note the capitalization, it’s intended of course. BUt what’s with the name of the blog? You’ve probably seen Seinfeld and perhaps the infamous “Soup Nazi” episode? My blog is inspired by the soup nazi, only I won’t be serving soup. I will be talking about code quality, code refactoring and code layout. Links to interesting stuff will still be served every now and then on my old blog, but this blog will be just my content and only on code. I’m no expert, so this is also an attempt to learn something, but I am passionate about code quality. I love taking ugly code and running code analysis on it; removing anti-patterns and refactoring it to be easier to read and more maintainable. Let me tell you abit more about the history of this blog;

I’ve always been interested in computers and programming, for as long as I can remember I’ve loved taking things apart and at some point I also started putting them back together again. I’ve been a developer in my heart since 1994 and a .net coder since 2002. I used to love building machines, for friends and family, setting up networks and throing LAN parties… I’ve created a few websites, ugly, but working. I’ve done heaps of things and I enmjoy doing it all. However for the longest time I struggled with finding something that I really, really loved doing. Something that I could perhaps be very good at, not just knowledgeable at. You see I’ve always said that I know a little about most things and little about anything. I’m a “jack of all trades”  I guess. But a spring morning in April it just dawned on me; I love refactoring, I love writing unit tests for legacy code, I love removing old and dead code and I love to watch code go from ugly and unstructured to structured and beautiful code. I really love it! So I found my passion! Go me!

As I’ve already said; I’m no expert. I’m just passionate about this and so I will try to blog my experiences with tools (PEX, Resharper etc.), my project experiences and I will tell you my opinion in matters related to code quality.