I See Dead Code

On my last day on the old project, I just ran some statistics over the code. Over nine months, I’ve touched 494 of 513 source files in our project at least once, which is 96.3%. All the automatic refactorings in Eclipse have made this all too easy.

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Dear WordPress Developers, I won’t even explain to you what is wrong with this statement above. CDATA and Doubly-Escaped Entities So let’s see. In theory, the XML snippets <bla><![CDATA[&auml;]]></bla> and <bla>&amp;auml;</bla> represent the same DOM tree. In order to see that this is actually true, one can use the Swiss Army Knife of XML handling, [...]

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