10 posts tagged with "refactoring"

It's very hard to build a large software project without having to undergo major refactorings every so often. Whether it is due to changes…

We all like abstractions. We use them every day to make sense of the world. Sometimes those abstractions can be useful, like saying "hey, if…

Static code analysis is a way of debugging that automatically examines source code before it compiles or is run. It does this by comparing…

Code For Cash When you get dropped into a legacy project, one of the main things you'll miss is the use of more modern development practices…

Code For Cash Code for long enough, and you'll eventually run across a codebase that is difficult to deal with. Such codebases have a lot of…

Originally coined by Kent Beck, according to Martin Fowler "a code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper…

Originally coined by Kent Beck, according to Martin Fowler "a code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper…

Non-technical characteristics are valuable to being a good developer. A lot of developers seem to think that the job is only about technical…

"Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent." A kata is a set of practice moves used in the martial arts to practice techniques…

"I want to reconfigure my code to best survive the environment it lives in, it's an evolutionary process." ~ Will Refactoring is the process…