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Blogged date : 2008 Apr 25
File this one away for the next time your boss comes in and asks, Yeaaah, I’m going to need you to make that little change to the code. It’ll only take you a couple hours, right? Software has this deceptive property in which some changes that seem quite big and challenging to the layman end up being quite trivial, while other changes that seem quite trivial, end up requiring a lot of thought, care, and work. Often, little changes add up to a lot. I’m going to walk through a change we made that seemed like a no-brainer but ended up having a lot of interesting consequences that were invisible to most onlookers. The Setup I’ll provide just enough context to understand the change. The project I work on, ASP.NET MVC allows you to call methods on...(
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