Doing a (brief) presentation Monday on long term software development (>10 years). Things you regret in year 8. I'd love to hear things you found out and wished you'd done differently. Or conversely, what worked out really well. Will turn this into a public presentation & blog post. To kick it off: PLEASE KEEP YOUR CODE AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE.

@bert_hubert

So far, it looks like the top three tips are:

Simplicity
- minimize dependencies
- appropriate frameworks
for scale, etc. (?)
- ?

Continuity
- keep the team together
- train new members before
oldsters retire

Transparency
- Document, document, document
- instrumentation?

@lolcat plus a strong vote for doing cleanups because the cognitive load of dealing with bad APIs or unfortunate semantics adds up over time. I wonder if @arclight will weigh in btw!