We did a rewrite of a truly wacky application component last year that supplied a steady stream of head scratchers. Today I walked back into the room from a late lunch and overheard a customer support manager getting a little hot under the collar over some unexpected, strange behavior in the system. My colleague was explaining what the system was doing when the support manager blurted out “why is it doing that?”
All of us in unison shouted at the speaker phone “because that’s what [old system] did!”
Oddly enough she didn’t care for that answer, but we were able to turn that rule off easily enough in the configuration.
About Jeremy Miller
Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency Injection with .Net, StoryTeller for supercharged acceptance testing in .Net, and one of the principal developers behind FubuMVC. Jeremy's thoughts on all things software can be found at The Shade Tree Developer at http://codebetter.com/jeremymiller.
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