{"id":11023,"date":"2012-01-25T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T09:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2012-03-05T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:55:59","slug":"under-the-development-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/blog\/under-the-development-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the development hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

The development team at Clear Books has been relatively quiet of late so what has been keeping the guys busy? Here’s a quick update.<\/p>\n

The team has been working very hard under the hood.<\/p>\n

Over Christmas and into the New Year there haven’t been very many new features released because on the surface nothing has changed, however, behind the scenes\u00a0key functionality has been migrated over to an MVC<\/a>\u00a0framework.<\/p>\n

In simple terms this new structure to the code makes it easier to debug, re-use, test, optimise and change in the future.<\/p>\n

Whereas in the beginning Clear Books code was written in a very procedural<\/a> way with code and content interwoven, it’s now very abstracted with code in one place and content in another using OOP<\/a> practices.<\/p>\n

Re-writing an application is a daunting prospect that may be\u00a0ill advised<\/a>. It has the potential to drag on to the\u00a0detriment\u00a0of producing new functionality, features and usability.<\/p>\n

Here’s how we approached it:<\/p>\n