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This week the Faceoff boys try to help you clean up your act. Your programming act, that is.

News and Follow-Ups

• 00:39 – Arts and Crafts
  • Create your own pop screen
• 02:07 – NiceTranslator – Active translation similar to the Google Wave translation bot

Webapps

• 03:56 – Wishmirror – Created to let people build their wish lists, exchange perfect gifts, and always enjoy unforgettable celebrations.
• 09:01 – BackupURL – Creates instant, cache’d backups of websites
  • Team Fortress 2 Pyro
• 13:00 – ccBetty – Creates a web space that tracks your email, all you have to do is CC Betty.
  • [email protected]

Topics

• 20:21 – Refactoring Code – “refactoring” source code means improving it without changing its overall results
  • Code Smells
  • The Boy Scout Rule
  • Mark Fowler – Wrote the book on refactoring
• 32:27 – Code Metrics – analytical tools that look at your code and give you detailed information about it’s characteristics
  • SourceMonitor – Measures metrics for source code written in C++, C, C#, VB.NET, Java, Delphi, Visual Basic (VB6) or HTML.
    • Ciske’s Blog
  • Metric-fu – a collection of Ruby code metric tools wrapped up into one package.
  • Heckle