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This week, we're delighted to have Chris Birchall here to launch the new MEAP (Manning early access program) book Re-Engineering Legacy Software and answer questions about it.

This innovative program allows subscribers to fast-track their knowledge on a particular technology by reading a book chapter-by-chapter as it is released. Receive the final eBook as soon as it's finished.

The promotion starts Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 and will end on Friday, December 12th, 2014.

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Welcome, Chris!

Maintaining legacy apps has been the bane of my existence these past several years. Even applications that are supposed to be greenfield quickly turn into legacy apps. I'm looking forward to some good discussions this week.
 
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Hi

Welcome Chris. Look forward to some interesting Q&A on various aspects of Legacy re-engineering

Regards
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Welcome Chris! Thanks for your time - and looking forward to the discussion...

--- cheerio atul
 
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This seems to be an interesting book. I have worked and re-engineered and modernized several legacy web applications. I'm just curious to see what this book offers.

Welcome to the ranch!
 
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Welcome Chris, I have been on three greenfield software projects so far and all of them had degraded their initial design at some point either due to developers/architects leaving or because the design/code couldn't evolve because of other pressures from project management. But later on we come to the point where it becomes unmaintainable. That's the point when management is ready to listen. If we said that we could refactor and bring it to safety, that would be a relief for them. If we were not able to refactor, then either the project fails or if it survives, it is painful for the developers like long work hours for forever. I have seen that in two of my three projects so far. lucky enough to have escaped the first one. So refactoring is a serious need for developers like me.

Looking forward to the discussion.

Cheers.
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Hi everyone! Thanks for the warm welcome. Glad to be here.
 
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Wow, so many great questions and discussions!

I'm calling it a day for now, but I promise I'll get around to them all.
 
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