I'm doing some heavy refactoring on a project that I've recently joined but that has been underway for months. The code is a mishmash of different styles [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/big-ball-of-mud-anti-pattern-primers/] and an uncertain architecture, so my task up to this point has been to make it more consistent,
Have you ever been hunting a bug and been absolutely sure that it was in someone else's code, only to find out that, nope, it was in yours all along? I sure did. Come along with me as we explore my latest minor failure and remind ourselves that, most of
I've mentioned before that I'm what my company calls a "lead" developer, which means I'm in charge of projects, not people [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/are-programmers-afraid-of-losing-control-over-their-code/] . It is my responsibility to assign work, conduct code reviews, divvy up tasks, etc. It may sound like this position means doing a lot