This was a lot of what I was hoping Code Complete would be. There were a lot of great concrete examples about how to write better code. And while they might not have had the research of scientific papers behind all the reasoning, each suggestion was well thought out. There was a bit of Java specific knowledge that was not applicable to my current situation, but the rest was great. I especially enjoyed the walkthrough he did of refactoring anything programmer's code. I will definitely be referring back to the heuristics outlined in this book as I do some refactoring of my own.