Funktastic Programming Adventures in Web Development

So I’m here at work trying to finish up a project that is due by Wednesday. I have been putting this project off as long as I can and now it is finally crunch time. I need to get this project done and working properly because my whole job could depend upon it.

So I am trying to work with code another person wrote, and I don’t really have a well-defined task description but I am managing to get everything up and running OK. It’s hard to work with someone else’s code when our company doesn’t have a policy of good coding practices, code review or unit testing.

I am having to re-organize and clean up code that someone else has written just so I can understand how the code works. There is little-to-no commenting in the scripts and it is very difficult to follow. Generally, we try to have the person who wrote the code maintain and update the code, but it’s not always possible. The reason why it’s not always possible is because my company has a high turnover rate and most of the people who wrote the original code have since quit.