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In-depth: Cleaning bad code
[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, BitSquid co-founder Niklas Frykholm offers some useful advice for dealing with messy, old code you’ve inherited from elsewhere.] Guess what! You’ve just inherited a stinking, steaming pile of messy old code. Congratulations! It’s all yours. Bad code can come from all kinds of places. Middleware, the internet, perhaps even your own company. You know that nice guy in the corner that nobody had time to check up on? Guess …
