There are two code camps this weekend: CMAP Code Camp in Maryland Pittsburgh Code Camp in Pennsylvania I will be speaking at the Pittsburgh Code Camp on Refactoring - a topic that is very dear to me. Register now and come along to talk code.   We are hiring!  Do you want to write beautiful...

The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA.  The speaker schedule has been posted here .   I am presenting two sessions: 9:00-10:15:     Refactoring in C# 1:00-2:15:        Web Application Testing in Watin...

Thanks to everyone for contributing!  It was really neat to read everyone's ideas and see the discussion and review (talking about code is always fun!).  Here is a summary of responses and the "fixed" code.  If you are interested in the original problem, go here .   @drakiula...

I have blogged about this before but I think it is a common problem that is worth restating since it affect developers across our industry.  I noticed the following method recently and again the curious separation of sections by whitespace popped into my head: 1: private void CalcHeaderOffsets(...

The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA.  The speaker schedule has been posted here . I will be presenting on two topics: Refactoring in C# - bad code to better code Web Application Testing in Watin There are lots of great sessions from WPF, TDD, SSIS, jQuery...

I will be giving a presentation on Refactoring in C# at RockNUG on Wednesday March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm.  Directions here . What could be more fun on a Wednesday evening than critiquing some bad code and making it better? :) Come along to learn how to clean code like the Thycotic team. What do we...

Developers look at code for hour upon hour every day.  After some years of doing this, you can just look at something and almost intuitively understand what it is doing - assuming that some effort has been made by the developers to keep the code clear and understandable.  But every now and...

I will be presenting on Refactoring in C# at the Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) on March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm. Refactoring in C# - Bad code to better code What could be more fun on a Wednesday evening than critiquing some bad code and making it better? :) Come along to learn how to clean code like...

What does your code terrain look like?  Are there bodies of dead logic lying here and there?  Maybe they helped briefly while you worked towards a better solution or perhaps they just fell victim to changing business rules. At a recent Code Camp, there was a question about code generation and...

Kevin has posted about refactoring some simple logic from an ASP.NET page and breaking it out into a separate class (Single Responsibility Principle) to make the code more maintainable. Kevin highlights the classic problem with unmaintainable code and works his way into how to not only improve this code...