[genezeta]

I once inherited a reasonably good code base. It wasn't a large project but it did have a certain complexity; it was a web application to write and manage HTML-formatted e-mail templates that the company then sent for various purposes from different applications.

It had no testing and documentation was little more than a brief overview in the internal wiki so at first it didn't feel very welcoming. But then the code turned out to be quite well organized and approachable. I added to it a couple of features that had been ignored for some time and the code really made sense. It guided you quickly towards the correct places you'd need to work on.

Ultimately the project itself was somewhat flawed because nobody wants to layout and maintain e-mail templates, specially when somebody insists that they want "100% pixel-perfect coverage on all e-mail clients including Outlook Express 5.01" -in 2014-.