In writing code, I believe that it should be written in the way it is meant to be written. My philosphy is parallel to the beliefs of Douglas Crockford (author of "JavaScript: The Good Parts").
This is what I believe is "show off" code:
- Code that is easy to read and follow
- Code where veriables and objects are named logically and appropirate to presence.
- Code that produces as near as it can to zero errors.
- Code that if it does produce errors, if efficently written to debug.
- Code that has relevant and sufficient comments so someone else can understand, debug, and edit the code efficiently
- Code that minimally confuses anyone who reads it.
- Code that doesn't compromise friendlyness or reliability for the sake of file size.