Beyond Legacy Code with David Bernstein
How do you manage legacy code? Carl and Richard talk to David Bernstein about his book Beyond Legacy Code. The conversation starts out talking about what legacy code is - and David brings up the idea that code is legacy if you don't have confidence in it. Now how do you get confidence? This is where the rewrite behavior comes from: You're naturally more confident in your own code. But is it a good idea? David talks about nine practices that are most effective at getting your application under control and out of legacy!
Guests:
David Bernstein
David Bernstein is the author of the book Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software. It’s an insider’s view of the software industry drawn from his decades of hands-on experience as a software developer, trainer, and consultant to some of the biggest players in the business. David’s continuing passion for software design and construction has led him to train more than 8,000 professional developers since 1990 at hundreds of companies around the world including IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo. His consulting firm, To Be Agile (http://ToBeAgile.com), helps developers adopt Extreme Programming practices such as test driven development, continuous integration, and refactoring.
Links:
- Timer Classes in History https://web.archive.org/web/20150329101415/https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164015.aspx
- Beyond Legacy Code https://pragprog.com/book/dblegacy/beyond-legacy-code
- To Be Agile https://tobeagile.com/
- System Strangling by Martin Fowler https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html