When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense

vlangber writes "Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post back in 2000 called 'Things You Should Never Do, Part I,' where he wrote the following: '[T]he single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.' Here is a story about a software company that decided to rewrite their application from scratch, and their experiences from that process."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F05%2F22%2F0651220%2FWhen-Rewriting-an-App-Actually-Makes-Sense" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=When+Rewriting+an+App+Actually+Makes+S ense%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fbq2zZc" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/05/22/0651220/When-Rewriting-an-App-Actually-Makes-Sense?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EL1KTt5dfY08KPJngo5sprMJpco/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EL1KTt5dfY08KPJngo5sprMJpco/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EL1KTt5dfY08KPJngo5sprMJpco/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EL1KTt5dfY08KPJngo5sprMJpco/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/b-9WVwTY3sM" height="1" width="1"/

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