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Originally legacy code meant code 'inherited' from authors or from a previous program/system version. Since Michael Feathers published his "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" book, new definition came to be, where code without tests is legacy code.

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Understanding a software system

I recently became part of a complex embedded project team for which I will be developing a part. For the part which is my responsibility there is only old code and not much documentation. I am keen to make a good start but shyness and fear of…
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I can't guess legacy code's purpose (Neo4j, cypher query)

I'm new programming with Neo4j, so I don't know enough from it's cypher language yet to solve without help an annoying bug from legacy and undocumented code. My main problem is that I can't guess the purpose of the following query... :s . That's the…
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.Net Add a table to legacy code

I have a legacy code base written in .NET It has a web.config with various connection strings defined to an oracle database. I have altered its QA environment connection string to point to my own oracle database located in a VM. (The schema of both…
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Fixing legacy code without breaking everything

I have some code like this : somefunc($row['some_key']); Sometimes, $row might not have 'some_key' which logs an Undefined index warning. How do you fix this warning without changing the current behavior of the program ? I know I need to fix…
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Build "exit" page using Classic ASP avoiding major Cross Site Scripting pitfalls

I'm working on updating a classic ASP web page used by a number of sub-sites maintained at the company I work for. The purpose of the page is to notify the user that they are leaving "our" site and going to another site. It's basically a disclaimer,…
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Is my code running jQuery?

The codebase I've inherited is full of $() methods and $.() methods. eg. $("#buttona").show(); $("#buttonb").show(); or bComment = $.trim($("#aComment" + i).val().replace(/"/g, "'").replace(/\,/g, " ").replace(/&/g, "&").replace(/</g,…
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Legacy code: Code First one to one or zero relationship

I have following legacy code fragment that I can't change: public class EntityA { int SeqId { get; set; } //Not part of the key [Association("EntityB", "Seq_ID", "Seq_ID")] public EntityB EntityB { get; set; } } public class EntityB { …
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What are the effects of using VS2005 to migrate from .NET 1.1

I'm working on some legacy code for a client, involving Microsoft Content Management System (MCMS). Currently, everything is local, the code, MCMS, SQLServer, and IIS (5.x). I copied the project folder, and then opened the new copied solution in…
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Catching all inline css and its html tag

I am refactoring legacy code of MVC framework html views. Many, many, many css styles are applied inline, which is bad practice. Is there a tool to generate a css file from all the inline styles of an html file ?
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unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ')'

I'm using AppServ 2.6.0 / Apache 2.2.8 / PHP 6.0.0-dev, and I'm getting an error with the following function. 0) { foreach($ex as $k => $v) { echo "".strip_tags($k)."
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C++11 on Visual Studio 2005

I'm handling with some multiplatform legacy code, and there is a requirement that should compile on Visual Studio 2005. VS 2005 supports C++11?
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How to add a new feature to an existing component?

We have this legacy image viewer component in our project that's working fine but it's source is a real mess. I have to add a new feature to this component so that people can add annotation to images using a light pen which is not a complicated task…
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Progress codebase analysis using Moose

Has anyone used Moose to deal with a large legacy Progress ABL/4GL codebase, and if yes, what are the caveats, experiences, lessons learned you can share about this?
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unit testing a TabbedPropertySection

I am trying to unit test a class which extends org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.AbstractPropertySection It is a GUI on top of a heap of legacy code. The AbstractPropertySection class have a private TabbedPropertySheetPage…
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Ruby on Rails: What to do with legacy code?

I've a portal project built in Rails 1.2.3. I've finished it at end of 2006. The project are using the following plug-ins: acts_as_attachment acts_as_ferret betternestedset simple_http_auth I know all plug-ins (or dependencies) was changed today, or…
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