RefactorRVA

Working with Legacy Code

This month we will be discussing strategies on working with legacy code. All developers have to deal with legacy at some point or another. People often associate working with legacy code as a bad thing, but it doesn't have to be. Please come with your war stories to share, and be open to learning about others' experiences. Scott Ford will be leading this discussion

About Scott

Scott Ford is the Founder and Chief Code Whisperer at Corgibytes, a software consultancy whose mission is to maintain and improve the world's existing codebases. Scott specializes and thrives on breathing new life into existing projects. Scott is a polyglot developer who, at last count, is fluent in over twenty programming languages. Scott's love of software restoration and remodeling began in college where he and his team were responsible for retrofiting the testing tools for the X-31 jet fighter. Since then, Scott has maintained a test-focused approach to his work and found the most joy in projects where an existing code base needed to be improved.

About RefactorRVA

RefactorRVA is a general software topic user group. We were formerly CVREG, but have rebranded to reflect our interests (which are not exclusive to Ruby). We get together the 2nd Tuesday of the month, and split our meetings between a conversational, round-table discussions and eyes-forward lectures.