Are we refactoring or rewriting? — “Rewriting a system from the ground up is essentially an admission of failure as a designer. It is making the statement: “We failed to design a maintainable system and so must start over.” — Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity So, like other software designers, I’ve been in a software rewriting process…

Should everyone be a programmer? — “Everyone in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you to think.” — Steve Jobs Did you ever think about what Steve Jobs was trying to emphasize with this sentence? Is it about code writing? Should everyone write code? Should everyone be a programmer? NO. Not…

Writing code is just the tip of the iceberg — Iceberg This is how I see all the hidden facts that we developers usually forget or tend to ignore when we are excited about writing code or implementing something new. In the form of an iceberg… The iceberg looks small and beautiful from the outside, so people tend to forget its…

“Difficult to make even small changes” “Breaking functionality of the software by making changes” “Introducing a new bug by fixing another one” “Implementing code that is unnecessary” “Almost impossible to add a new feature because of complicated code” “The never-shipping product” “Throwing code away and rewriting it from scratch” Are…