If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is quite a bit overdue.) Now on to challenge 3... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! This challenge will pit your skills against the very useful State Design Pattern along with writing your own...

If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is a little late in being published...but it's worth it!) Now on to challenge 2... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! I'm excited about this week's challenge and am sure it'll be interesting and...

Congratulations to Rune Rystad who is the winner of Challenge 1 ! Rune has won a copy of Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams along with a 3-user license pack for CodeIt.Once Refactoring . (The winner was randomly selected from all correct entries received.) For the record...

For an overview of this contest, read this opening introduction . Now, onto this week's refactoring challenge... As Fowler's subtitle describes, refactoring is about "improving the design of existing code"; an introduction to the subject can be found at refactoring.com . This first challenge includes...

Each week, refactor my smelly project and win a free book along with a CodeIt.Once Refactoring tool 3-User license pack! Here's how it'll work ... Each week, beginning tomorrow, Nov. 13, a VS 2005 project will be provided which contains one or more specified "smells." The project may be a Windows App...