Now, I have some contempt for code metrics, ever since I discovered that TFS thought that my worst code was a constructor that checked its parameters for null.  Metrics are useful indicators.  Profit is a metric used to measure the health of a company.  It's not always useful, but that's the nature of metrics, they're indicators, not hard and fast rules.  I thought it might be interesting to examine Patrick's original post about NHibnerate 2.1 which started the whole recent argument about maintainability. First, he took a look at the number of changes to the code base.  There's been a phenomenal...