`More Slogging`

We’re engaged in a long series of small steps, moving capability from the Cell up to the classes that hold onto Cells. The good news: small steps can be done over a long period of time. Bad: it is often not very interesting. Did not use the word "gallimaufry". Could have. In this article, I’ll try to focus on any interesting bits that do arise. The less-interesting items might get a small mention or a single example from a batch of similar changes. Let me emphasize what I think is the key discovery behind all this step-by-step slogging: No Need for Large Refactorings! I’ve encountered many teams whose design got away from them, and they concluded that the only hope was a huge rewrite or a very long refactoring with no progress in capability. I have fallen into that trap myself. After years of programming myself into trouble, I now believe that almost1 any design change can be done in small steps, spread over time, without getting in the way of adding capability to the program. We are…