Comments on: When Good Tasks Go Bad http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/designpatterns/when-good-tasks-go-bad/ visualize. learn. improve. Fri, 04 May 2012 22:11:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steve Almond http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/designpatterns/when-good-tasks-go-bad/#comment-2749 Steve Almond Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:00:46 +0000 http://personalkanban.com/?p=1302#comment-2749 Enjoyed the article. Quick comment on your suggestion that Richard should approach his client and ask for permission to rewrite: rewrites are way, way harder than people think. Better to take some time /each/ time to refactor the code you touch. Move 'magic numbers' into a config file. Move duplicated code into functions or objects. De-duplicate, separate, encapsulate, and all that good stuff. ;-) Unless you've got good tests, /don't/ rewrite. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35233/rewrite-or-repair Enjoyed the article.

Quick comment on your suggestion that Richard should approach his client and ask for permission to rewrite: rewrites are way, way harder than people think. Better to take some time /each/ time to refactor the code you touch. Move ‘magic numbers’ into a config file. Move duplicated code into functions or objects. De-duplicate, separate, encapsulate, and all that good stuff. ;-)

Unless you’ve got good tests, /don’t/ rewrite.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35233/rewrite-or-repair

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