ArchiveNovember 2012

I love Legacy Code!

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This is how I started my Wildcard Talk at XP Days Hamburg 2012. It was really fun doing the kata on legacy code techniques in front of a great audience, and many asked me if I wrote about these techniques somewhere. Well, I just had! (If you just want to see the video, scroll down, I just added it).

So, let’s start with the basics. What is legacy code?

How to Change An Organization

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I’ve recently commented on a conversation in the Agile Coaching group on LinkedIn. I’m reproducing my comment here because it relates with a misconception that I see often.

The question it started from was, in my words, “Is a training enough to change the way a department works?”. My answer is below.

alexbolboaca.ro Reflections on design, craft and software

A new home for merging ideas about design

It is my strong belief that software design can learn a lot from other design disciplines. I wrote blog posts, a book and did talks on this topic, and it was time to group them all together. These ideas have now a new home: https://codedesigner.eu. My plan is to add more blog posts there, and to involve other people doing work in this area.