Legacy code workshop - John Nolan

If you believe the blogo and twitterspheres we're all writing sleek well designed, SOLID, test covered, behavior driven, pluggable, perfomant, immutable, asynchronous node.js in sharded erlang on our ubuntu phones. If you aren't then apparently you're some form of knuckle dragging neanderthal. But guess what? Codebases exist well after the high paid consultants abandon their half baked designs. The majority of codebases are ugly, broken and damn scary to work with and the majority of software development is work on those codebases.

In this session we will be looking, dissecting and discussing legacy code and with any luck we will be making some of it better too.

Laptops preferred. Language agnostic. Opinions required.

Hopefully suitable for developers of all skill levels.