Is it ethical to make a copy of my work's source code, for the sole purpose of my own reference? By reference, I mean as reference where I can refer to it about how I (and my teammates) implemented various design patterns, architecture, etc. It does not contain any trade secret, product, secret algorithm or anything like that.
Note that I wrote many parts of the source code, and also the added value from me studying the code will also indirectly benefit the company I am working on.
If you want to take code home but you don't tell at work and have to do it secretly it's unethical.
I think keeping a code example reference library from job to job is a good idea. It should be better than Google. I would encourage it if I was a boss.
Instead of having very broad design examples, I normally have a few lines of code or blocks to reference. A Factory Pattern example maybe but how much code is it going to take to show how to do BDD? There shouldn't be a complete application here.
