Laura Thomson
Senior Software Engineer, Mozilla Corporation

Laura Thomson is a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation on the web team, after spending much of the previous decade as a consultant and trainer on various Open Source technologies.

Laura is the co-author of “PHP and MySQL Web Development” and “MySQL Tutorial”. She is a veteran speaker at Open Source conferences world wide.

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2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010

Rewrite or Refactor: When to Declare Technical Bankruptcy

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There comes a time in a project's life when you have to make the decision: can this code be saved? Should we fix it, or declare technical bankruptcy to cancel our technical debts and start again? In this talk I'll look at when and how to make this decision without regrets. Read more.

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Laura Thomson Senior Software Engineer, Mozilla Corporation