I attended Day 1 of YOW! Sydney 2013 and thought some people might get something useful out of my notes. These aren’t my complete reinterpretations of every slide, but just things I jotted down that I thought were interesting enough to remember or look into further.

Hadi Hariri is a Developer and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. He spoke at YOW! about refactoring legacy codebases.

Hadi started by offering reasons for refactoring:

• increase the understandability of the code
• decrease the impact of change
• reduce the cost of change

He described how refactoring relies on culture: Continue reading →