Joe Ess wrote:
You dip your toe in, fool a around a little, then you're trapped. That's exactly what refactoring looks like to me, but it may be because we're in the middle of rewriting our flagship application and things are, um, a bit more interesting than anyone planned for...
IMO, refactoring is always about small changes -- and those changes don't change any functionality. So, "rewriting a flagship application" isn't refactoring...
So, back to the youtube video... I dip my toe in, fool around a little, then I'm trapped .... and .... I roll everything back via CVS (no panic here).
Henry