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A simple technique to do safe changes in a complex codebase

A simple technique to do safe changes in a complex codebase

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Legacy PHP Application: PHP Code Sniffer Compatibility Standard

Legacy PHP Application: PHP Code Sniffer Compatibility Standard

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Cost of Code Ownership

Cost of Code Ownership

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Legacy application code review - Part 1: The big picture

Legacy application code review - Part 1: The big picture

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Developer Fears: Legacy Code

Developer Fears: Legacy Code

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Legacy PHP Application Tour & Upgrade

Legacy PHP Application Tour & Upgrade

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How to Update Legacy Code

How to Update Legacy Code

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From Legacy Projects to CI/CD Pipelines

From Legacy Projects to CI/CD Pipelines

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It's a Very Scary This Dot Halloween: LEGACY CODE

It's a Very Scary This Dot Halloween: LEGACY CODE

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5 coding exercises to practice refactoring Legacy Code

5 coding exercises to practice refactoring Legacy Code

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The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox by Jonathan Boccara

The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox by Jonathan Boccara

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Legacy PHP Application: PHP CS Fixer & PHP Code Sniffer for PSR1 & PSR2

Legacy PHP Application: PHP CS Fixer & PHP Code Sniffer for PSR1 & PSR2

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When not to refactor. Dealing with legacy systems as a responsible professional

When not to refactor. Dealing with legacy systems as a responsible professional

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Working with Legacy, a tale of a slow query.

Working with Legacy, a tale of a slow query.

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Get a Legacy PHP (5.3) application running in Docker

Get a Legacy PHP (5.3) application running in Docker

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Where should you put the documentation?

Where should you put the documentation?

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Legacy PHP Application: Code Analysis With PHP CS Fixer

Legacy PHP Application: Code Analysis With PHP CS Fixer

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Does refactoring Legacy Code pay off in your career?

Does refactoring Legacy Code pay off in your career?

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Announcing MenderCon

Announcing MenderCon

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Techniques For Tackling Legacy Code – Parte Deux

Techniques For Tackling Legacy Code – Parte Deux

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Tackling Legacy Code – Final Thoughts

Tackling Legacy Code – Final Thoughts

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How to Get Away with Unit Testing Legacy Code

How to Get Away with Unit Testing Legacy Code

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Focus refactoring on what matters with Hotspots Analysis

Focus refactoring on what matters with Hotspots Analysis

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Legacy application code review - Part 2: The details

Legacy application code review - Part 2: The details

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Make Your Tests Fail Randomly (and Profit)

Make Your Tests Fail Randomly (and Profit)

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Bringing Meaning to Legacy Code with Parameter Objects

Bringing Meaning to Legacy Code with Parameter Objects

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Using Custom Events to communicate between legacy jQuery code and new Framework code

Using Custom Events to communicate between legacy jQuery code and new Framework code

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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore 👴🏻🚀

The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore 👴🏻🚀

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Can AI help me write tests on legacy code?

Can AI help me write tests on legacy code?

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An invitation to listen to Maintainable Software Podcast 01:16

An invitation to listen to Maintainable Software Podcast

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How to safely extend your legacy code? Part I

How to safely extend your legacy code? Part I

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Working with legacy React apps

Working with legacy React apps

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When is it the best time to refactor?

When is it the best time to refactor?

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Escaping the Catch-22 of Anti-Test Arguments

Escaping the Catch-22 of Anti-Test Arguments

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How to deal with legacy code

How to deal with legacy code

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The Shame of Legacy Code

The Shame of Legacy Code

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Thoughts on Legacy Code

Thoughts on Legacy Code

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How to Terminate Legacy Code without Getting Stuck

How to Terminate Legacy Code without Getting Stuck

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Legacy Code and Chesterson's Fence

Legacy Code and Chesterson's Fence

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How To Rebuild Existing Software: Fixing And Updating Legacy Code

How To Rebuild Existing Software: Fixing And Updating Legacy Code

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Break out command object

Break out command object

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Changing Software : Sprout Method

Changing Software : Sprout Method

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7 advice to help you inherit a legacy codebase

7 advice to help you inherit a legacy codebase

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The Lifetime of TODO Comments: the Results

The Lifetime of TODO Comments: the Results

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Dive into an unfamiliar codebase from its edges

Dive into an unfamiliar codebase from its edges

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Is it up to the newer developer to pay back others' technical debt?

Is it up to the newer developer to pay back others' technical debt?

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Visiting a Three-Year-Old Unfinished React Project

Visiting a Three-Year-Old Unfinished React Project

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Your codebase is your garden

Your codebase is your garden

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Legacy code best practice: how to take over an existing project smoothly

Legacy code best practice: how to take over an existing project smoothly

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What's the difference between Regression Tests, Characterization Tests, and Approval Tests?

What's the difference between Regression Tests, Characterization Tests, and Approval Tests?

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4 developers working their way through Legacy Code

4 developers working their way through Legacy Code

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The best way to start testing untested code

The best way to start testing untested code

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Is it OK to change code for the sake of testing?

Is it OK to change code for the sake of testing?

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The Number that Broke and Spoke – C++ Investigator

The Number that Broke and Spoke – C++ Investigator

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How we're smashing our technical debt

How we're smashing our technical debt

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Giving new life to existing Om legacy SPAs with re-om

Giving new life to existing Om legacy SPAs with re-om

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Estrategias de migración: Strangler Fig Application y Anticorruption Layer

Estrategias de migración: Strangler Fig Application y Anticorruption Layer

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Integrating dependency injection into a legacy code base

Integrating dependency injection into a legacy code base

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Approval Tests, TCR, and Menders

Approval Tests, TCR, and Menders

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Tiny DevOps Episode 4: Working with technical debt

Tiny DevOps Episode 4: Working with technical debt

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