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If you're anywhere near London on Tuesday 29th July, come along to the eXtreme Tuesday Club (XTC) and we can talk about the coding and design practices that make for maintainable code in the long term.

This is how we'll do it. Prepare in advance.

Meanwhile, I've seen some excellent feedback on what makes for good maintainable code. There is a central overlap of core techniques that developers who have to maintain code in the long term have grown to adopted. And yet, even knowing these things work, they often slip our minds.