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I refactor my own code frequently. It is often relatively easy to refactor my own code because I know my code well. In fact, the process of maintaining and reading my own code often provides the ...

As a CEO in 2021, your organization likely has some type of proprietary software. And at some point, either through changing market conditions or lags in performance, your CTO will tell you that ...

Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...

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I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

Every day, software developers make decisions that they later regret. They may be tiny decisions, such as the name to use for a variable, or they may be major decisions such as the metaphor to use for ...

Visual Studio Code's monthly release cadence continues to stream a new supply of goodies in each iteration, with the latest featuring improved code refactoring, color picker, automatic tag closing and ...