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
November 27th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
That is a brilliant comparison!
November 27th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Reminds me of Long Term Capital Management. Bad stack. No one checked the assumptions.
November 28th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
hey you! hope you are feeling better. your posts have been a bit technical lately. why not throw me a bone and post something fluffy?
November 29th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Haha, the part Terry didn’t mention was that I was referring to some of Tagged’s code base!
May 28th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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