This Old App
summary
Renovation equals upgrade with concrete outcomes: a decades‑old C++ app crashes from an off‑by‑one in combo box that requires debugging assembly to find; a Java migration from WebLogic 5.1→8 stalls on a licensing quirk and dozens of stale XML libs that get fixed by rebuilt all source tarballs and incremental updates; a Photoshop plugin ships after a 16‑bit to 15‑bit translation workaround; a data rewrite replaces remote Oracle with redis + sidekiq rewrite and dramatically improves performance.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 5:42RANDOM CRASHES
- 5:54MEMORY STOMP
- 7:09DEBUGGING ASSEMBLY CODE
- 8:28REFINISH VS REPLACE
- 16:24PHOTO CORRECTION LIBRARY
- 16:54PHOTOSHOP PLUGIN
- 30:30AUTHENTICATION
- 30:44PASSWORDS
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