Flipping The Bozo Bit

This one’s all about the music. What if you had to rewrite your software after every release? In This Episode: The conceptual difficulties of other peoples' code, even when those other people are you. Legacy code and your own conceptual traps. Legacy code and demon possession. Legacy code and multiple personality disorder. What if you have to rewrite your code for each fix or deployment? “Write a new version of the code, minus the bug.” Lego oriented programming Binary vs texty interop ClassCastException vs sloppy parsers. “No, no. All shall match!” Log it and move on. Loosely coupled components vs statically-typed messages. The freedom to write crap code. The side-tracking concerns of the typical code review. “Okay, I’m having a connection.” Guitar! Writing code as performance. Improvisation, instruments, scores. Rewrite as process is kinda like jazz improvisation over a chart of chord changes, right? Sax might work better than a sympho