Refactormycode.com

By Heri Sep 27th 2007 in Development

After a week of beta-testing, Marc-André Cournouyer has launched Refactor My Code, a website to share Ruby, C# and Javascript code. It invites web developers to share publicly snippets of code in order to get feedback and improvements from other members. One year ago, there was rails.techno-weenie.net which did the same thing with a points system but Rick Olson moved it to a Beast forum and then killed off the service.

The beauty of Refactor my Code is that it’s simple in design but serves right a purpose in practice. It’s those kind of websites you think you could have came up with it yourself, but Marc-André finally nailed it. I am expecting it to become a reference for RoR developers, beyond Montreal. I have to say I am quite impressed and tempted to focus 100% on development (instead of mtw for instance).

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macournoyer September 27, 2007

Thanks for the link and great words Heri, it’s always very appreciated!

I hope it will help ppl write better code, and have fun doing it. It did for me!

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Heri September 27, 2007

i hope it gets great exposure

congrats again marc-andré

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Ouch! You broke my site « Marc-André Cournoyer’s blog September 29, 2007

[...] to all the people who talked, commented or blogged about RefactorMyCode! You made it [...]

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Denis Canuel October 01, 2007

It made it to Digg’s front page. I hope the servers survived..! Anyhow, congrats!

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macournoyer October 01, 2007

Thanks Denis,

It died when when it just made it to the front page as long as on reddit and delicious.

I made some major caching improvement and now it’s back up and should be pretty fast

Thanks for the props!

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