I recently discovered RefactorMyCode, a developer-oriented site aimed at letting others critique, or refactor, your code snippets. Up until now, it seemed that the only communities based around helping others with their code were mundane programming forums. RefactorMyCode is an interesting concept, allowing users to sort code submissions by most popular, programming language and more.
If you’re into this developer stuff, RefactorMyCode is a great way to kill time.. productively. At the moment there aren’t too many users on the site, but hopefully that will change and it will be thriving in a few months.
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Wow, I went through some of the snippets and am amazed how quick some of the code got “better”.
Also funny to see was one snippet which was being refactored several times until it was reverted back to thge original :-D
btw, first :-)
Sweet. Too bad they don’t have HTML, only hard-core stuff :-)
Thanks for the tip.
i couldn’t register:
“Sorry, the OpenID server couldn’t be found”
it’s a shame OpenID it’s the only option, never trusted it too much.
That’s a cool concept!
Interesting that .NET is not among the categories… But Ruby is.
Yeah.. I agree with Zach, more HTML stuff!!
I wouldn’t personally call myself a coder, because although I’ve made a few websites, they’ve been pretty basic and anything other than standard HTML has come from some other tutorial site, and yet some people claim themselves to be ‘coders’ for games and the like when all they do is simply let a WYSIWYG program do it all for them. Just though I’d point that out! =D
Sounds like a great way to do a little HW to test your skills.
Ah nice. Looking forward to remembering to using it and then actually using it :) Thanks for the tip.
P.S. Nice blog realignment ;)
@Aron, @Zach – I don’t think this site will ever have an HTML section. HTML isn’t a programming language, it’s a markup language and as such there aren’t really any things that you would have real problems with, like optimizing the runtime of a loop, as HTML doesn’t have those complex abilities. Just my 2c.
@Bob – It seems that people are dealing with that by posting in the C# category and saying that it’s particularly .NET C#, etc, in the comment field.
As you noted, the success of the site is really dependent on the users. If a great community grows, this could be an excellent asset to developers.
Hey thanks for the link! I’m the creator of RefactorMyCode.com
I’m really happy ppl find it usefull and help each other, that’s amazing!!
In fact HTML is not a programming language it won’t be on the site, stiil you could submit PHP code and add an HTML code section.
Also .NET is a framework, C# is the language (as it can run on Mono and Dot Gnu also).
Thanks a lot for the comments I really appreciate it!
If you have any question or suggestion, please feel free to contact me at any time.
@pablasso make sure you can login to other site w/ this OpenId, if not think about changing OpenId provider.
Thats a fresh idea for sure! Hope it grows and support more programming tools in the future! I’d like to see (x)html, css category too! Nice to see that lisp is supported though!
Actually a great idea if the community can manage to stay positive and helpful — not getting too arrogant, as high-level programmers often do :)
Your post is the first time I’d heard of it, surprisingly. It has been bookmarked.
PS: I dig your new footer.
I agree with the idea of not being too arrogant. Some sites, especiall forums, get so deep into the ’search the site first’ mentality, that a 400k post forum search for your problem will result in 500 ’search the site’ posts before you can find the last time the question was actually answered (One reason, IMO, why Linux is not as big as it should be.)
I do think that there is a place for HTML/CSS. Though not strictly a programming language, there are issues to overcome, depending on your level. It can also be used to optimize your code for speed, etc.
You’re right, the amount of content on there is a bit slim right now, but the community is tremendous. I went through some of the code examples and was extremely surprised at how many responses there already was. Nice find Paul!
Concerning HTML, I’d like to point you to this code submission: http://refactormycode.com/codes/48-simple-form-validation
The language is Javascript but you can add an HTML section
Thanks for the comments all, I appreciate it!
That’s an awesome idea! Bookmarked for sure. I know when I have gone looking for help it’s always to some dry, boring forum with hardly any activity. I really like the format of this site. And I like how some of the code gets worked around and ends up being the original again!
Wow. Great review and service. I’m a coding beginer and this will help be become more. Thanks for showing me and the readers an amazing service.