Foreword
It’s the end of the project. Project managers are happy, you’ve released the code on time, and it even works! Everyone is congratulating you for a job well done, but every pat on the back is like a lash from the whip of guilt. You harbor a dark secret that will soon be found out—your code. At first everything was great. You got to start from scratch, and hey, you even got to use a new framework! Then you built the code base, fixed bugs, and added features that were missed in the requirements document. But so many unexpected changes turned the code base into a tangled mess. It started new and shiny, but it ended as a crufty disaster. It works, but man, if you only had it to do all over again.
We all know that special sort of coding pain ...
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