We have a few large projects on at work to replace key legacy systems and are discussing how to do that. Most of the discussions so far have tended to end up in a position where an incremental piece of delivery of the large overall system has been rejected because we know it will require rework later. In this case, knowing about the rework is good! For large projects which ...

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I have just read Why contracting developers refuse to go permanent. It says: Working with legacy technology is something the developers I spoke to were not particularly fond of. They explained that these pieces of software are often built using outdated methodologies and poorly docum...

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Having spent the day doing some maintenance work on one of our legacy sites, I can hand on heart say that old sites using tables for layout are far, far, far harder to edit than current sites using CSS for layout. Even given its weaknesses (the web dev department’s favourite this week has been inline-block, o...

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