When code gets older – Tips for keeping maintenance projects alive and kicking

Once upon a time there was a green field project with fresh new technologies and well written source code. But some month or years later the code doesn’t look that fancy anymore. New features have been added, some rock star programmers have left the team for a new shiny project and a lot of bugs have just been fixed in a fast and dirty way.
This talk will show why code has the tendency to get messy over time and what to do about it. You will learn some clean code techniques and how to use them on a day to day basis! Get back the fun into your maintenance project!