legacy-code

Would like to integrate a legacy application with a Symfony 2 application - replacing more and more parts of the old application with Symfony components. The approach I would take is using the Symfony 2 container in the legacy application getting the services that are already configured for the Symfony 2 application. The first services I would like to use are the session and the security context. Questions: Is this feasible? How do I get the configured service container? More info in the legacy application: The typical PHP mess: Single PHP files, as "controllers" (checking $_GET and $_POST for

This may be a subjective question leading to deletion but I would really like some feedback. Recently, I moved to another very large enterprise project where I work as a developer. I was aghast to find most classes in the project are anywhere from 8K to 50K lines long with methods that are 1K to 8K lines long. It's mostly business logic dealing with DB tables and data management, full of conditional statements to handle the use cases. Are classes this large common in large enterprise systems? I realize without looking at the code it's hard to make a determination, but have you ever worked on a

I need some advice on how to work with legacy code. A while ago, I was given the task to add a few reports to a reporting app. written in Struts 1, back in 2005. No big deal, but the code is quite messy. No usage of Action forms, and basically the code is one huge action, and a lot of if-else statements inside. Also, no one here has functional knowledge on this. We just happened to have it in our contract. I'm quite unhappy about this, and not sure how to proceed. This application is invisible: Few people (but all very important) use it, so they don't care whether my eyes bleed while reading

I've gotten quite interested in coding katas in recent months. I believe they are a great way to hone my programming skills and improve the quality of the code I write on the job. There are numerous places where Katas can be found. like.. http://codekata.pragprog.com/ http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/Katas http://www.codingdojo.org/ I've found these to be excellent repositories of Katas... my attempts at some of them have been been immensely rewarding. However, I feel that all the Kata's I've seen so far have one short coming. None of them seem to allow me to practice refactoring bad code. It's

I am looking for a utility/tool to convert calls to legacy VB6 functions to the .NET equivalent. For example, it would convert this... FormatCurrency(Cart.TotalAmount) Len(Str) UCase(Str) UBound(PaymentsArray) To this... Cart.TotalAmount.ToString("c") Str.Length Str.ToUpper() PaymentsArray.Length - 1 Does anybody know of one, or am I going to have to roll my own? Do you need a conversion for those functions? The vb6 functions work just fine in vb.net. MarkJ If your code is already converted to working VB.Net, why not just leave the calls as they are? The routines are in Microsoft.VisualBasic

How can I write a unit test for a method that has a using statement? For example let assume that I have a method Foo . public bool Foo() { using (IMyDisposableClass client = new MyDisposableClass()) { return client.SomeOtherMethod(); } } How can I test something like the code above? Sometimes I choose not to use using statement and Dispose() an object manually. I hope that someone will show me a trick I can use. If you construct the IMyDisposableClass using a factory (injected into the parent class) rather than using the new keyword, you can mock the IMyDisposable and do a verify on the