Development quotes of the week

Believe it or don't, no license, no matter how clever, will allow you to be financially successful if you blow the business execution.

It didn't take long to find many sections of code from similar blog posts. Almost all of the blog posts either wrote a disclaimer or should have written one. They all solved one small piece of a problem, but took many liberties in their solution to make it simpler to read. It's understandable. Most readers appreciate brevity when learning a concept.

The code from these blog posts had spread through the codebase like a disease, scattering issues here and there without any rhyme or reason. And there wasn't any obvious cure other than to read everything manually and fix issues as I went along. Without unit tests or automated deployments, this took almost a year. I'm almost certain the cost of fixing the code exceeded the margin on revenue due to writing it in the first place.