Refactoring memoQ

Refactoring memoQ. By Peter Reynolds.

I found out today that Bono was rich. He’s the singer who called himself after a hearing aid shop in Abbey Street, Dublin. Unusual but he appears to have pulled it off! Anyway today the news is that he is rich. Apparently he got a friend to buy some Facebook shares and the journalists have now been working out that Bono is rich. The thing is I knew Bono was rich already. This is not real news. Unlike the information that memoQ 6 will be faster than memoQ 5.

There is a tendency with some software providers not to worry too much about their software becoming bloated as the users keep getting bigger, better, faster computers and don’t notice this. Thankfully no-one told the development team at Kilgray. In recent months they have been refactoring memoQ. This is a process of code review and optimisation. Balázs wrote an excellent article on this at the end of last year: http://kilgray.blogspot.com/2011/12/refactoring-response-to-pains-of-growth.html.

Refactoring memoQ is a big deal. Kilgray have an excellent team who have been working on this software since 2004. I have no idea how many lines of code or whatever go into memoQ but it is a lot. Since the release of memoQ 5 they have been going through this code and making sure that it all fits together well, does exactly what it is supposed to and is optimised. As well as ensuring that memoQ 6 will be faster and better than previous versions, this also means that we have improved our base for building other exciting features in the future.

The news today is that memoQ will be fast, if you want to know how fast you should plan to come to memoQfest in May http://www.memoqfest.org/. It looks like being another great conference and will be a good place to find out exactly how fast memoQ 6 is.