refactoring

Mosquito Method

December 27, 20140 comments

Refactoring very dirty, 1000+ lines of procedural legacy code, without underlying unit tests at hand is one of the most dangerous programming activities possible, and as such often it is not touched at all. Today, I woul

Read article →

Mikado Method

December 26, 20140 comments

Recently, I attended a talk about “Mikado Method”. Let me summarize what this is all about. When adding a new feature to an existing code base, you often start with a rough idea and you think everything will be nice and

Read article →

Always touch a running system

April 23, 20140 comments

I am a Java developer since 2001. Over the years I came to realize that most teams / companies are totally ruled by fear. Fear to touch the code, fear to touch the production system, fear to touch the test system, fear t

Read article →