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9th August 2007

Skillful Spaghetti Code

So you’ve just been handed a big plate of spaghetti code to take care of, and you’re feeling overwhelmed. Michael C. Kasten has some great advice on how to deal with this skillfully. It’s short and to the point, so I won’t repeat it. But it’s definitely worth reading.

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From 68000 assembly, dataflow languages, and C/C++, to J2EE and Web 2.0, I've been trying figure out how to write better software, and write software better, since 1988. For the last eight years I've been working on enterprise web applications, as a software architect and lead engineer.

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