Our code sucks. Actually, let me clarify that. Our old code sucks. It's difficult to debug and is full of abstractions that few people understand or even remember. Just yesterday I spent an hour debugging in an area that I've worked for over a year and found myself thinking, "Wow, this is really painful." It's not anyone's fault - I...
I have built a website, with a batch of source files and a database script. They are under SVN control on my local machine. Now I have brought a host. The host provides ftp and ssh tools. I will need to upload my source files via ftp. Before that I need to remove SVN control so I can save the effort of uploading a lot of SVN version-cont...
I was writing a bunch of code a few months ago and now I'm adding stuff to it. I realized I wrote a bunch of functions that descend from a class that has about 2/3rds of its functions abstract and the remaining 1/3rd virtual. I'm pretty much sick of seeing: function descendent.doSomething() : TList; begin inherited; end; when I...
I have been playing around with the concept of 'module' that some mvc frameworks implement and it seems like a good solution, and also with TDD, but I think there must be something more, like a design pattern I missed (I only know a few), that will let me build applications that can grow (in code) with no limits. Any thoughts? edit : ...
Having been stuck with SQL2000 for far too long, I've not really had a lot of exposure to Common Table Expressions. The answers I've given here (#4025380) and here (#4018793) have gone against the flow in that they didn't use a CTE. I appreciate that for recursion they are the beez kneez, and there are a few queries that can be greatl...
I am working on a (vb.net/asp.net) project that is using interfaces to provide dependency injection. But to me, it feels like the maintainability of the code has been killed. When I want to read through the code, I can't simply jump to the code of a related class that is used. All I see are the interfaces, and so I have to hunt through t...