refactoremycode.com is another new web 2.0 service, this time aimed at helping programmers at receiving comments and feedback to enhance their code.
It works in this way: you are unsure about a portion of your code, or a library you are writing; so, you can upload it to the refactoremycode repository, and the other people, driven by a 'web 2.0 - free software' philosophy, will have a look at it and give you their suggestions and comments and feedback.
Here is the link: http://refactormycode.com/
My idea is: what about if we create something like this for bioinformatics? Maybe at this same site, nodalpoint, as a support for the forum. I don't know if the code of refactoremycode is released under a free license, but maybe we can ask.
I think this approach will be great in bioinformatics because our field is full of people who write short one-time scripts (have I said perl-ists :=) ? ) and biologist who try to learn programming by themselves.
Refactor Bioinformatics
looks interesting. You could try uploading some bioinformatics code to their site and see what feedback you get?
bioinformatics code? ok..
bioinformatics code?
ok.. let me think a while about what I can upload.
In the meanwhile, this is my favorite code from that site:
- http://refactormycode.com/codes/51-classtemplate
it is a template for a class in python, showing how to use the pydoc and dontest modules, which I didn't know how to use properly before.