Legacy

The economics of clean code

The economics of clean code

“The only way to make the deadline — the only way to go fast — is to keep the code as clean as possible at all times.

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A love letter to legacy projects

A love letter to legacy projects

Monday morning. Your previous project just wrapped up, and they are going to assign you a brand new one. They even promised you the lead on this project.

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The Integration Operation Segregation Principle

The Integration Operation Segregation Principle

A few weeks ago I attended a DDDBelgium meetup where I was lucky to participate in a refactor workshop lead by Pim and Joop .

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The Y2k38 Bug: The biggest news craze of the year 2038

The Y2k38 Bug: The biggest news craze of the year 2038

As you might know, I co-organise a PHP meetup called: PHP Antwerp . Some time ago we had one of our talented speakers: Joeri Sebrechts talk about “What every developer should know about time, no excuses“ (If you ever have the chance to see it, I wholly recommend it).

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