>>>thats the hardest IT work. Good luck with it. Inheriting a C__p codebase. There never seems to be a methodology for tht sort of work.
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>>The same old dilemma: http://www.ndragan.com/pv/muddy_kids.html
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>>Most of the time, there even isn't a choice, though. You do what you can, not what needs to be done.
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>LOL
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>I once worked on a system for a while (no names) came back to it a couple of years later and said "Who wrote this. It doesn't work". Embarrassed silence at the other end of the phone followed by "It was you". Internal voice then says "Mason you're an idiot"

This worked for me, and several of my colleagues who were just as ready to be candid, without any technology other than eyeballing the code and finding our old comments in it. The nice part is that you can curse yourself out loud as much as you want, knowing you won't mind.