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Big Ruby 2014 - Harry Potter and the Legacy Codebase

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Channel: Confreaks · 2014 · Science & Technology

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It's your first day at Hogwarts.com, and everything is wonderful and thrilling. You dig in to classes, and soon find a dusty book with a cryptic warning: 

"Do NOT on any circumstances make ANY change to this magic incantation without talking to Doug first!!!" 

Sound familiar? Approaching a legacy code base can feel like unraveling a mystery, not just about the code, but about the personalities who wrote it. What tools and techniques can help you solve the maze of twisty code? Let's explore how to get a handle on legacy code, how to negotiate joining an existing team of developers, and how we can get a summa cum laude at graduation.

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