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Changelog Interviews - The best, worst codebase

The best, worst codebase

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Jimmy Miller talks to us about his experience with a legacy codebase at his first job as a programmer. The codebase was massive, with hundreds of thousands of lines of C# and Visual Basic, and a database with over 1,000 columns. Let’s just say Jimmy got into some stuff. There’s even a Gilfoyle involved. This episode is all about his adventures while working there.

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09/18/24 • 84 min

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Changelog Interviews - The best, worst codebase

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Transcript for Changelog Interviews #609 Jerod Santo:

So we're joined today by Jimmy Miller, host of the Future of Coding podcast. Jimmy, you wrote the best, worst blog post. It was amazing.

Adam Stacoviak:

Ha-ha-ha-ha...

Jimmy Miller:

Nice little play on words there. Yeah, I recently wrote a blog post talking about my first job in programming, and it's the best worst codebase I ever worked in. And so yeah, it was a really fun post, and ki

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