RailsConfEurope: Keynote DHH – Living with legacy software
The keynote of David Hennemeijer Hanson this morning was not really about technology, but more about us developers using the technology (in this case Rails). He made a good point about legacy software: that it’s more an opinion of us, than a property of the software itself and that it’s a reason to celebrate when we consider our software legacy: we have learned and grown as software developers.
Not really easy to summarize the session right now, but when I have the slides I will try to summarize the session because it was quite good (it made me think differently about legacy software) and David had some nice examples of how he refactored the Basecamp codebase (the flagship product of 37signals).
