Category Archives: DAG

Two Screencasts on How to Demystify Spaghetti Code

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Patrick Smacchia

In my consultant career, no matter the kind of company I visited, from the tiny startup to the largest fortune 500 corporation, they all have in common to be entangled in spaghetti. Spaghetti means poorly structured code. Spaghetti means high maintenance and … Continue reading →

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Layering, the Level metric and the Discourse of Method

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Patrick Smacchia

When we are discussing the architecture of a code base, we often qualify a piece of code with terms such as high level and low level. This is common vocabulary and we all intuitively know what does it means. A piece of code … Continue reading →

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