Converting legacy code
How to convert millions of lines of code to a modern software project
Martin Seebach
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Complexity as a virtue
Or, How to make liberalism a personal value
No-Code is dead, long live Max-code
No-code is a terrible misunderstanding. The idea that Real Programming™ is hard, and that non-programmers should be exposed to it through carefully procured platforms and interfaces is almost as old as programming itself
About that audition project
The idea of an audition project comes up frequently in recommendations about hiring and interviewing, most recently in HackerEarth’s Technical Interviews: What’s beyond the Fizzbuzz challenge. I find points 1-4 solid and insightful advice, but point 5 – the audition project – irks me.
JAXB isn’t half bad
This week I had to implement a small Java program that would provide a UI to manipulate an XML file. My heart sank a bit at the promise of a trip to the Java/XML enterprise heartland.
Double considered harmful
_ or: How the number 1.2 cramped my style.._
Beautiful doesn’t make it true
Yesterday, @christianevejlo tweeted interest in whether volcano-grounded planes were a net benefit for the environment. Retweeting an answer, she referenced Information is Beautiful’s post “Planes or Volcano”, an indeed aesthetically pleasing illustration of the CO2 emissions of the European aviation industry next to that of the Icelandic volcano. I replied that “Information is beautiful seems to…