Project & Team Management Apply Iterative Development Practices to Legacy Modernization Projects Iterative development is part of developing new products, but it's equally important during legacy modernization projects.
Project & Team Management Balance Legacy Modernization with AI Innovation: A Practical Roadmap Say your team is debating overhauling a legacy system holding your product back, but AI tools are hyped as the next big thing. What's next?
The Software Life Generate CTEs for a Legacy Database Using an LLM Here's how to use the power of LLMs to generate Common Table Expressions, making a legacy database easier to work with for ad-hoc queries.
Development The Most Important Tool for Working with Legacy Code: Empathy When I'm scratching my head, trying to figure out what the author of some legacy code was thinking, I try to put some empathy into practice.
React / Redux How to Create and Export Web Components From a React Application On a recent project, we wanted to export a handful of components from our React application for use in a Vue web application. Web Components to the rescue!
.NET / WPF How to Extract Data from a Legacy Visual FoxPro Application If you’ve been challenged to extract data from a Visual FoxPro database, use this recipe to get a development environment up and running fast.
Development Practices Exploding Breadcrumbs Make Life Easier for Your Future Self Your future self will be thrilled when they encounter exploding breadcrumbs instead of a unworkable project.
Development Practices Today’s Code Is Tomorrow’s Legacy Project – Make It Easy to Resurrect Getting legacy projects running again is never fun. Leave some breadcrumbs, and your colleagues & future self will thank you.
Development Practices Need to Understand Some Legacy Code? Start with a Test! Debugging legacy application is never easy, but you can make understanding it less of a chore by adding a unit test. Includes rationale and examples.
Development Practices Need to Debug a Legacy App? Throw an Exception Make debugging a legacy app less of a chore by throwing an exception–it's cheap, quick, and easy.
Development Practices Your Codebase Is a Garden – 5 Essential Code Maintenance Practices Just like a growing office plant, a software project needs constant maintenance to stay healthy.
Development Practices Diff, not That Do you know about the --ignore-matching-lines option to GNU diff? I recently found a great use for it on a recent project here at Atomic.
