Refactoring Disasters – A Story how I failed

For my small Open Source project TP-CORE, you can find it on GitHub, I had the gorgeous Idee to replace the iText library for OpenPDF. After I made a plan how I could reach my goal I started all necessary activities. But in real life the things never that easy like we have originally in mind. I failed with my idea and in this talk I will let you know what happened exactly. I talk about my motivation why I wanted the replacements and how was my plan to success all activities. You will get to know how it was when I reached the point, I realized I will not make it. I give a brief explanation what I did that this short adventure did not affect the rest of the project.