Today, I came across a random class at the bottom of a file (you do have one class per file, don’t you?). This class had one static, readonly member on it, which was a regular expression used to determine whether or not an address was a post office box.

Taking a look at the Wrap Method refactoring technique outlined in detail in Working Effectively with Legacy Code. We will walk though this technique and take a look at how it can help you to create better and more maintainable code.

In part five of my refactoring series I made some real world refactoring. I refactored the database schema update of the open source project “Personal Task Manager” which is available at SourceForge.

How to leverage test to learn new api's and as a refactoring tool.

Fantastic article by Billy McCafferty on content you already know... Don't you?? This covers some of the core points that any modern developer simply must know if they want to be taken seriously on all but the most trivial projects.

Here is a love letter to ReSharper. All the devs are show, and today we got RC1 for the 4.01 release. NICE!

In an attempt to avoid out parameters (which suck) in C#, I refactored a bit of contrived code to bury them elsewhere. I also worked on the equivalent F# code, and found more things about C# that may or may not suck.

A new term for the developer lexicon: Refactorbation.

A short screencast I created that demonstrates how I use free productivity enhancers such as GhostDoc, Regionerate and Visual Studio's built-in refactoring tools.

In my current project, I have an application service that is used to make various modifications to a shopping cart, like adding cart items, applying discounts, changing quantities, etc. Well as this service class evolved, the methods were starting to look like this...

Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior and result of the code yet improves its readability and internal structure. Object oriented developers recognize the value of refactoring working code. Until recently good tools have n...

Developer Express released a free version of their refactoring tools for ASP.Net. There are also links to a funny screencast and to an article with many screenshots in the blog entry.

In a previous post, I showed some examples of how to create custom view components in MonoRail and touched on the ability to create composite view components. Since then I've refactored towards the use of interfaces which I think is a cleaner approach, so I thought I'd share.

Read a review of this modern classic book by Martin Fowler of UML Distilled fame. Excerpt: Refactoring is a risky procedure that dates back to the advent of the SmallTalk programming language. But, it has since spread to all modern languages; and, it is considered critical in framework and class lib...