Nina Zakharenko - Technical Debt - The code monster in everyone's closet
Technical debt is the code monster hiding in everyone's closet. If you ignore it, it will terrorize you at night. To banish it and re-gain your productivity, you'll need to face it head on.
GMO and Gluten Free Dough """ # ran out of organic gluten free, use the other stuff. ! # return 'organic gluten free dough' return 'gmo white pesticide dough'
code and design didn’t go away. Instead, it became the base for an expanding project, with expanding features. Worse, there was never any time to refactor.
"Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it." Source: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Boy_Scout_Rule "Always check a module in cleaner than when you checked it out."