I had already read Joel Spolsky's article in the past and it has come to mind several times these days. I agree with Spolsky but this is a different thing: I ha

I had already read Joel Spolsky's article in the past and it has come to mind several times these days. I agree with Spolsky but this is a different thing: I have to maintain and expand the code we have and I want to steer the website in a new direction. I also liked Steve Yegge's list of essential features of software systems (thanks for the pointer), of which my legacy system has none.