All of us would prefer to work on code that we love. And all of us are faced with code code that we feel…well, not so warm and fuzzy about. Its the nature of our business.
Legacy code is everywhere. From code that’s just been around a long time to code that was rushed to completion years and years ago and never fixed, we all have to deal with things that are imperfect and challenging to deal with.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 @ 7:00 am | Comments (0) | Categories: Best Practices, PHP, Clean Code, Refactoring
Bad code. You’re stuck with it. Lots of it. Over time, one small hack has led to many. Before you know it the technical debt in your application is stacked to the ceiling. It’s hard to make heads or tails out of things. How can you fix it? What can you do?
Over the past few days I’ve been working on fixing small bits of applications from years past. Though none of them are what I’d consider “horrible legacy code”, all of them are neglected but critical aspects of our product delivery cycle. One app in particular showed signs of the times it was written: in a time before PDO, before object oriented PHP, before the mysql_* group of functions was deprecated.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 @ 7:00 am | Comment (6) | Categories: PHP, Clean Code
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