Category: technical debt

Being a Full Stack Developer

A full stack developer who can get from a prototype to full MVP (minimum viable product) is often considered a jack of all trades, master of none, and with good reason. To define the modern full stack developer, we first need to focus on what the full stack developer used to be. Full Stack Developers Then Long ago, ci...

The Balance between Visual and Technical Debt in PHP

Laracasts recently published a very interesting non-Laravel video about something called visual debt. It’s only 3 minutes long, so please, take the time to watch it before reading further.Done? Okay, spoilers below.In the video, Jeff starts out with with a bit of verbose event-based code with some listeners, ...

Technical Debt: Rescuing Legacy Code through Refactoring

How can you get a legacy codebase under control and bring it to a new level of maturity? In this post, Jeroen summarizes the lessons learned from years of working on a large legacy web application. This article was originally published by intracto.Legacy Code Can Be Saved by Refactoring I have good news for you! Squi...