Attention: This article was published over 2 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.It’s time to release your latest front-end changes to production. However, as you create a new tag, you notice a large number of commits …
This blog post serves as a thought experiment, delving into potential solutions for a pattern I have noticed on projects throughout my career. As a consultant, I work with many companies, each with unique ways of organizing and handling software development. However, throughout my career at Keyhole and elsewhere, I’ve noticed something that seems to be consistent across all dev teams: the existence of legacy code.
Legacy code can be frustrating and time-consuming to work with, so I used AI to create a solution to mitigate the hassle. While other solutions may already exist (and some may be more efficient), I found the process of creating this tool expanded my understanding; it really helped me grow as an engineer.
So, I’m using this blog post to share my process with you! Let’s dive into how AI can assist in improving application design (specifically legacy code) through automation.
This post demonstrates some of my favorite search techniques that work well in VSCode, including some basic RegEx (Regular Expressions) expressions that will help you find exactly what you’re looking for in an unfamiliar code base. We will cover VSCode file type inclusions and exclusions, single-line multi-term searching, conditional searching, and more. RegEx can be intimidating to people who aren’t used to using it, but luckily the RegEx expressions described in this post are very easy to remember and incredibly powerful.
Attention: This article was published over 2 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Creating RESTful APIs with Spring Boot is a straightforward process, making it a popular choice for a variety of applications, from UI to batch …
Documentation is an integral part of any development process and can take significant time and effort to write. Additionally, even if we write quality documentation, oftentimes it fails to evolve as development best practices change and can quickly become outdated. Mermaid aims to fix this so-called “Doc-Rot” by creating a quick and easy way to create detailed diagrams that can evolve alongside code development.
Today, we will be going over Mermaid and, more specifically, how it can be used to both create and maintain complex documentation using diagrams.