Archive for the tag 'refactoring'

Nov 10 2009

The cost and benefits of cleaning up code

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I’m not a very scientific person. Actually I’m probably quite un-academic in my approach towards software development. There are a lot of stuff I consider essential that havn’t really been proven, but I won’t stop doing it just because of that. It might be a weakness, but this field is also way too complex for [...]

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Jan 10 2009

Redesign is not going to save you

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This was really a ReTweet from Johannes, but my mind started working and it got sort of out of hand for a tweet. Both his comment and link was excellent:
Software tends towards more technical debt. Without the discipline to reverse this, we won’t succeed in a rewrite either. – Johannes Brodwall
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Jan 03 2009

Agile databases

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Ferris sent me a message a little while back and asked if I had any input on handling databases, so it gave me a reason to sit down and try to write something about my experiences. I’m not too happy about the flow of these articles, but I figured it was better to get something [...]

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Sep 01 2008

Database as a service

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I’m still out on if the database as a service is a good or bad idea. I am leaning towards the latter though.
One of the scary things most developers do today is refactoring the database. I actually think a lot of good refactorings just isn’t done because it becomes a large and daunting task when [...]

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