All your codebase are belong to Jenga

Someone designed the framework like a big game of Jenga. Every time someone went into fix something they pulled it out of the core and put it on top. Now the whole thing is unstable. —Mark Jen, talking about building code on top of bad OO architecture

8 thoughts on “All your codebase are belong to Jenga

  1. Pingback: The Woodwork » Blog Archive » Consultants

  2. Pingback: The Woodwork » Blog Archive » Keeping memcache consistent

  3. Pingback: Findlay Followup | DarqByte

  4. Pingback: The Woodwork » Blog Archive » My monkey typing resonates

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>