http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/2010/02/09/vistaprint-lessons-learned-software-development/ Mike's in China, doing tech stuff Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/2010/02/09/vistaprint-lessons-learned-software-development/#comment-328 Kendall Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:23:14 +0000 http://blog.mpdaugherty.com/?p=191#comment-328 "Patch, patch, patch" is how engineers code ;-). Or at least the ones in my office. They know they should abandon their legacy code, but at this point, we would pretty much have to start all over. It's hard to convince anyone to do that since the software is more a PR tool than a money maker (it's sort of half and half), but it looks like it's 10 years old and half of it is in fortran ... I'm worried about what it what it will look like and how it will run in 10 more years ... “Patch, patch, patch” is how engineers code . Or at least the ones in my office. They know they should abandon their legacy code, but at this point, we would pretty much have to start all over. It’s hard to convince anyone to do that since the software is more a PR tool than a money maker (it’s sort of half and half), but it looks like it’s 10 years old and half of it is in fortran … I’m worried about what it what it will look like and how it will run in 10 more years …

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