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Software Rewrite: The Chase

Last week, a post I wrote, “The Myth of the Software Rewrite“, became pretty popular.  This generated a lot of comments and discussion, so I decided just to write a...
Erik Dietrich October 29, 2015

Relax. Everyone’s Code Rots

I earn my living, or part of it, anyway, doing something very awkward.  I get called in to assess and analyze codebases for health and maintainability.  As you can no...
Erik Dietrich October 22, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 6: Cyclomatic Complexity Explained

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 line of code?” is actually more...
Erik Dietrich October 15, 2015

Hidden Costs in Your Software

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.  In case you haven’t participated in...
Erik Dietrich October 8, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 5: Flavors of Lines of Code

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 of this series of posts is...
Erik Dietrich October 1, 2015