Tag: Legacy Code
APRS-SCS
Last week, the developer of APRS-SCS, John – KB2SCS announced that he was dropping all support for APRS-SCS, as it is written in VB6, which is no longer supported by “the boys from Redmond”, aka Microsoft. At that time, John put the source code up on his Web Site. I started to talk with John […]
Continue reading APRS-SCSAAArrrggghhh Legacy Code
Recently, I’ve been working on what is probably the “Ultimate” legacy/Brownfield application. It’s a VERY important application for our business, or WAS, but the users are starting to find other ways to do their job. The problem is that the application in question is VERY hard to maintain, and management does not want to risk […]
Continue reading AAArrrggghhh Legacy CodeA Basic Class Design Lesson
Hi Gang,I’m going through some OLD code today, probably written before classes, but looking at it, I realized it might be a good class design lesson for those not used to writing classes. The code was in a form, and was actually used multiple times – which by itself says the code should be in […]
Continue reading A Basic Class Design LessonBarriers to Agile Development
I just ran across an interesting blog post RE the Barriers to Agile development at barrier to agile development Personally, I can see how Agile and TDD work. MY personal biggest barrier is that MOST of my development time these days is spent porting REAL legacy code – VB 6.0 stuff (some of which were […]
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