I just came to know about Clean Code by Uncle Bob Martin. This book is so good that I realize all my current code smells. What are the resources you recommend to write better code?
I wish I had the time to write cleaner code at work - the company ethos is to strive for progress and not perfection, as that could come later... Buncha nitwits. At least there's the open source community, who tend to follow style guides in their respective programming languages. I tend to follow those guides if I contribute to that project, and reading up on the different style guides for the same language has given me a decent perspective on what is generally expected. Following those is a good way to write clear, concise code. I also tend to try to explain the code I'm writing in the actual code without needing comments (I still do comment code though), so any function/variable/property names are verbose in that respect. My usual goal for this is to make the code clear enough to be understandable if it had no comments at all, but add comments in anyway to elaborate on what is happening.