Over the last five years I have had the opportunity to work on a large legacy code application. In doing so I have found a common set of principles to working safely in this type of environment (Often… more →
My Adventures in Codingmoffdub wrote 1 month ago: Announcer: From the EIP Sylvanian Operations Center, somewhere in south-eastern PA, it’s Nowhere To … more →
michaellarouche wrote 4 months ago: In last episode, I introduced my project about refactoring my Tetris clone code. In order to get a f … more →
michaellarouche wrote 4 months ago: Introduction Hello, welcome to my series of article about refactoring game legacy code. Game legacy … more →
K wrote 4 months ago: Corporate developers spend majority of their programming time doing maintenance work. My basis for … more →
ketiljensen wrote 5 months ago: Last week a colleague and I held a presentation about TDD for some of the developers at one of the l … more →
K wrote 5 months ago: Introduction On a recent ramble through Google Scholar, I stumbled on a fascinating paper by Michael … more →
Perfectionist Gal wrote 6 months ago: Here are 10 weaknesses of human intelligence: Faulty hard drive - Witness recall is notoriously inac … more →
trptcolin wrote 6 months ago: Well, I’ve played my last trumpet gig on the books for the time being. Took a trip down to Sou … more →
peysal wrote 8 months ago: Yes….seems I been idle since the last week, it would beneficial for me and the team if I could … more →
timross wrote 10 months ago: Uncle Bob writes about why rewriting an existing Big Ball of Mud is probably the worst thing you can … more →
bjallmon wrote 10 months ago: A wise man once said that legacy code is anything without a test. This pretty much means if it was w … more →
gutzofter wrote 1 year ago: Now that most of the low-hanging fuit has been picked from sb-cover, it is time to try to tackle som … more →
gutzofter wrote 1 year ago: The project I’m working on right now is sb-cover. I want to integrate it with lisp-unit-with-f … more →
aarondestin wrote 1 year ago: Legacy Migration refers to the porting of a legacy system to a new programming language. A legacy co … more →
kfitch42 wrote 1 year ago: I recently took a Test-Driven-Development (TDD) training course and the teacher recommended that I r … more →
ketiljensen wrote 1 year ago: A couple of weeks ago I bought the book “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” (WELC) by … more →
danielmeyer wrote 1 year ago: Looking to see when the next major release of the Thunderbird email client was planned, I came acros … more →
timross wrote 1 year ago: No, I’m not being ironic; I’m actually enjoying working with legacy code! I have recentl … more →
stochasticresonance wrote 1 year ago: Link love for Michael Feathers Outside the Design Boundary I’m working my way through Working … more →