{"id":19669,"date":"2024-10-18T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19669"},"modified":"2024-10-20T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T14:19:04","slug":"knowabunga_2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/10\/18\/knowabunga_2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowabunga 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me holding a talk about how to survive when you’re thrown into a super messy code base. With a sample size of two (Urb-it + Sortera) I must surely be an expert, right?<\/p>\n

The talk was originally about being thrown into legacy code, but having had an intense philosophical discussion this morning about what actually constitutes legacy code, and not wanting to invite a repeat of that discussion during\/before\/after my talk, I renamed it.<\/p>\n

The talk was well received. As a consultant, your assignments will involve messy legacy code more often than not.<\/p>\n

There’s no recording this time, but here’s a very brief summary of my five-step approach:<\/p>\n

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  1. \nLearn the code – read it, draw it, play around with it\n<\/li>\n
  2. \nClean it up – fix typos, warnings, dead code, etc\n<\/li>\n
  3. \nSet up a safety net – nullability, types, end-to-end tests\n<\/li>\n
  4. \nBigger refactorings – making sure to finish one before starting another, to not leave the code in a worse state than it was before\n<\/li>\n
  5. \nDon’t forget about the people – talk to your users, celebrate your successes\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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