Refactor Code Launched
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, active member of ASP Alliance and owner and founder of GridViewGuy, Mohammad Azam, announced his new site on his blog today.
Refactor Code is a new simple site that targets developers audience to help them refactor their code or find the refactored code for common scenarios.
As he has described in the about page of the site, this site tries to let developers share their existing code and ask others to refactor and improve it. Others can also simply search and find the refactored code for what they're going to write.
Refactoring is a technique to change the existing ugly code and make it beautiful without changing the workings of the code.
In short, making the code suck less!Our website RefactorCode is developed to help developers refactor the code, therefore improving programming skills and overcome many challenges one faces when coding. You can submit your ugly code and other developers can find ways to improve it.
It's a simple site but a nice and new idea for the community which can technically help all developers and especially the .NET community developers to write a code with better quality. Its logo is similar to ALT.NET logo and somehow this site is a good help for ALT.NET as well.
I'd recommend Mohammad to use Gravatar and add its support to the site rather than asking the user to enter his avatar URL. Moreover, it's good to use a different formatting and highlighting for the source code.
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12 Comments : 05.04.08
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@Mohammad Azam,
That makes sense. Thank you for introducing such a site and putting your effort into it. I'm pretty sure it will have a good effect on the community.
Hi,
Gravatar has been enabled! :)
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@Mohammad Azam,
Cool :-)
A web site without RSS is a site I will not be checking unfortunately. :( That is the best way to win repeat traffic and help me skim through all of the really useful sites out there. This site looks really useful but I cannot remember to check it all the time. Please give me RSS.
@Brennan Stehling and @Mohammad Azam:
Brennan, this comment should notify Mohammad about the RSS feed so he can add it to the site even though it's in Beta and this may be already a feature for the final version.
Hi Brennan,
Thanks for the feedback. I have written this down in my TODO list. RSS Feeds will be available in few days.
Thanks,
Azam
I have implemented the RSS Feeds. You can check it out at refactorcode.com/.../Rss.aspx
Works with Firefox and Google Reader but does not work with IE (not sure why?). I will look into this issue.
@Mohammad Azam,
Be sure to add the meta tag to the pages so the RSS is discovered by the browsers. Look at the meta tags for any blog for how to set up the RSS data.
@Mohammad Azam,
Use the Feed Validator to ensure the RSS is formatted properly. That will help fix your problems with IE. It is showing a couple of problems you can probably fix easily.
Hi,
The IE problems are fixed! I was making a small mistake :)
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Mohammad Azam
05.04.2008 @ 12:41 PM
Hi Keyvan,
First of all thanks a million for writing a post about RefactorCode. I really appreciate it! You are right and I have added the support for Gravatar is in my TODO list. The website is still in its BETA stages since it just launched yesterday. As time goes on I will add more features to the site and make it more accessible.
Hopefully, this site will serve as a good learning ground for all the developers and increase our knowledge exponentially.
Thanks,
Mohammad Azam