Comments on: When technical debt becomes technical bankruptcy http://jamesmckay.net/2009/04/when-technical-debt-becomes-technical-bankruptcy/ because there are few things that are less logical than business logic Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:13:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mark W. Schumann http://jamesmckay.net/2009/04/when-technical-debt-becomes-technical-bankruptcy/comment-page-1/#comment-3943 Mark W. Schumann Thu, 07 May 2009 22:05:23 +0000 http://jamesmckay.net/2009/04/when-technical-debt-becomes-technical-bankruptcy/#comment-3943 Thank you for this post, James. I just blogged in a similar vein: http://blog.criticalresults.com/Bankruptcy You can be pretty proactive about technical debt even when writing new code--think of the hole it will leave when it has to be ripped out someday, and make it as clean as possible. Thank you for this post, James. I just blogged in a similar vein: http://blog.criticalresults.com/Bankruptcy

You can be pretty proactive about technical debt even when writing new code–think of the hole it will leave when it has to be ripped out someday, and make it as clean as possible.

]]> By: James http://jamesmckay.net/2009/04/when-technical-debt-becomes-technical-bankruptcy/comment-page-1/#comment-3892 James Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:40:23 +0000 http://jamesmckay.net/2009/04/when-technical-debt-becomes-technical-bankruptcy/#comment-3892 Actually, in my experience, it's VB projects that have tended to be heaviest on technical debt, not C (or C# for that matter). Even PHP doesn't come close. Having said that, this post was at least partly inspired by a certain open source PHP application that I was struggling with over the weekend... Actually, in my experience, it’s VB projects that have tended to be heaviest on technical debt, not C (or C# for that matter). Even PHP doesn’t come close.

Having said that, this post was at least partly inspired by a certain open source PHP application that I was struggling with over the weekend…

]]> By: Joel http://jamesmckay.net/2009/04/when-technical-debt-becomes-technical-bankruptcy/comment-page-1/#comment-3889 Joel Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:21:06 +0000 http://jamesmckay.net/2009/04/when-technical-debt-becomes-technical-bankruptcy/#comment-3889 Hi James, Sounds like you're yet another victim of the "c" project! ;-) I'd go for the total rewrite if i were you. Joel Hi James,

Sounds like you’re yet another victim of the “c” project! -)
I’d go for the total rewrite if i were you.

Joel

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