What if I told you Morpheus never said “What if I told you?” I know you saw that meme a thousand times but have you actually heard him say it in the movie? You didn’t, because it didn’t happen. Darth Vader also never said “Luke, I am your...
Our previous blog post covered tips on code style fixing while working on legacy projects. The blog post was very generic and the ideas are applicable to projects in any language. I mentioned some tips that help your peer developers review your pull requests. What I didn’t mention are...
Legacy projects Old projects (maybe even 6 months or less) often come without test suites, are tightly coupled with an outdated version of a framework (if not: has lots of boilerplate code), and are written without consistency in code style. When working on such a project, it’s tempting to...