I’ve been refactoring and refactoring some old code, and it’s kind of odd what short-cuts (or even time bombs), you’ll find in code, which apparently wasn’t supposed to live on for years.
In a now retired CMS system, we had an issue every new year, when some kind of bug would reset all “schedules” for upcoming [...]
Posts Tagged Development
Build-in time bombs
Feb 9
Better but Broken
May 10
Working with application development – either on the web, on the desktop or any other place – is often quite interesting. When making new releases features are added, changed – or in rare cases removed.
As a developer – or “software product manager” – it must be an interesting challenge to keep up with [...]
Most developers (and certainly professional shops) working with software- or webdevelopment has understood the ideas behind sourcecode version management – no matter if they choose to use cvs, subversion, git or any of the other fine systems available. How developers use these systems, can provide an easy insight into who is the dummy, the average [...]
So it been awhile since I sort of promised some tips on developing web applications fast. This post contains my five generic tips, which may apply to you (but then again – your mileage may vary). I’ve tried to abstract the advice and not stick to PHP development here, though it’s by far the world [...]
Code archeology
Oct 28
I’ve been spending quite some time the past days digging around in old code (3+ years old with no or very little changes). It’s quite fun noticing what efforts pay off and which doesn’t when you go back to make chance to old stuff. I’m sure my observations aren’t generally applicable. We’re web developers and [...]
Mysql metadata
Nov 17
If you’re a developer and use mysql, I’m sure you’re aware that it’s a database and it quite good at storing data, but one of the neat things about Mysql (and most other databases) is also their ability to provide meta-data on the contents of the database.
Most people know how to use the meta-data queries [...]