Month: October 2015
Software Rewrite: The Chase
October 29, 2015 3 minutes read Last week, a post I wrote, “The Myth of the Software Rewrite“, became pretty popular. This generated a lot of comments and discussion, so...
Relax. Everyone’s Code Rots
October 22, 2015 2 minutes read I earn my living, or part of it, anyway, doing something very awkward. I get called in to assess and analyze codebases for health...
Let’s Build a Metric 6: Cyclomatic Complexity Explained
October 15, 2015 3 minutes read In the last installment of this series, I talked a good bit about lines of code. As it turns out, the question, “what is a...
Hidden Costs in Your Software
October 8, 2015 2 minutes read One of the things I remember most vividly from my CIO days was the RFP process for handling spikes in demands on my group’s time....
Let’s Build a Metric 5: Flavors of Lines of Code
October 1, 2015 1 minutes read The last episode of this series was heavy on theory, so let’s balance it out a bit with some applied science. The lofty goal...