Your app needs an MOT
Web app maintenance isn't a thing, but it should be. Nobody knows their app is withering until it breaks. It needs an MOT every year. (More.)
Maintenance (5 posts)
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Maintenance is a market you have to make
Web application maintenance isn't a thing, but it should be. I was drafting an article with that title in October 2017. The problem for anyone selling it: hardly anyone searches for it. Owners don't …
Who has the backups?
Talking at Reading Geek Night tonight: things to consider when taking over an existing web application. (The checklist.)
Inherited a web app? A due-diligence checklist
I gave this as a talk in 2016, for anyone taking over a web application: the new agency, the new freelancer, or the manager who has just been told it's theirs now. Most applications I've taken over …
Upgrade or rewrite?
In March 2015, W3Techs had PHP on 82 percent of websites, and 18 percent of those were still on PHP 5.2. Support for 5.2 had ended in January 2011. That's a lot of applications that hadn't had a …