Fredrik Normén

If you didn't know, you can get the code you have posted on ForkCan.com and include it to your blog posts or sites. The following is an instruction (The Instruction itself is included from ForkCan.com):

ForkCan is now available, you can read more about ForkCan here. If you have an idea of a code, or want to see if it can be improved, want to find code for your project etc or talk about code. Then ForkCan is a place for you..

I have worked on a project for a while now, I call it ForkCan and can be found on the following URL www.forkcan.com. ForkCan is all about sharing code in a social way. I have notice that several developers on twitter paste pointers to sites like paste-it.net to share some code with others, and to get feedback on the code. I moved this a little bit further and created a similar site BUT! I also want to make sure developers can learn from each other, discuss the code with each other and much more. There are so many great code examples shared and distributed on the web, but to find them we need to search for it and it’s spread around different blog posts, forums etc. I wanted to create one place where developers can add the code, make a repository of codes where everyone can find great code to be used in a project. I also created ForkCan to save my own “good to have” code snippets, so I can find it easy and and copy and paste it into my projects. You may wonder why I call it ForkCan? It’s because it can be used as a can of forks ;) Fork in Software development is about taking an existing code and make development on it. So with ForkCan you can share your code, someone else can make it even better by making a Fork of it. The idea of ForkCan is to help each other to be better developers. The site also is a great tool for the Copy & Pasters.. ;)

Yesterday Microsoft announced WebMatrix, a tool to build standalone ASP.NET Pages using the new Razor view eninge. With WebMatrix developers will get the new IIS Developer Express and SQL Compact Edtition.

Because of my work with the www.forkcan.com and the traveling around Sweden talking about ASPEN a Silverlight 4, MVVM, RIA Services, Unity 2.0, MEF application I haven’t spend so much time with blogging.

I have done some talks on different events and summits about Defensive Programming and Design by Contract, last time was at Cornerstone’s Developer Summit 2010. Next time will be at SweNug (Sweden .Net User Group). I decided to write a blog post about of some stuffs I was talking about.

Every time I start my computer, I do the following:

This blog post will show you step by step to refactoring some code to be more readable (at least what I think). Patrik Löwnedahl gave me some of the ideas when we where talking about making code much cleaner.