The first system I worked on, at my first job out of college, was a legacy PHP application. The code was like a piled up plate of spaghetti. Although it was an application used by tens of thousands internally, attempts at rewrites had failed. It was a critical system but there was on strategy on … Continue reading How to Work on Legacy Systems
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Software Engineers
Stephen Covey's 7 Habits for Highly Effective People is a business book classic. What if we took the idea of 7 Effective Habits and applied it to Software Engineers? Here's my list based on common habits I have seen amongst top performing software engineers in my career. Actively prototype new ideas Ideas and new technical … Continue reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective Software Engineers