Music Notation Editor – Refactoring view creation logic elsewhere

Let me preface by saying that knowing some elementary music theory and music notation may be helpful in grasping the problem at hand.

What is the politically correct way of refactoring other’s code? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How can I tactfully suggest improvements to others’ badly designed code during review? (16 answers) Closed 9 years ago. I’m currently working in a geographically distributed team in a big company. Everybody is just focused on today’s tasks and getting things done, however this means sometimes things have to […]

Can notes/to-dos in code comments sent to code-reviews result in an effective refactoring process?

I want to start/improve a culture of collective code ownership at my company but at a geographically distributed level… I’d say there is some current collective code-ownership mentality, but only at single geographical sites.

Question on refactoring and code design

Suppose, I have a class with a constant static final field. Then I want in certain situations that field to be different. It still can be final, because it should be initialized in constructor. My question is, what strategy I should use:

Would you refactor this and if so, would you charge your client?

I am working on a freelance job at home. The client wants me to write some new functionality for his CMS, but it is taking me a lot of time to figure out what the code is doing, because it is written in a very unreadable style.

Is it justified to use project-wide unique function and variable names to help future refactoring?

Refactoring tools (like ReSharper) often can’t be sure whether to rename a given identifier when, for example refactoring a JavaScript function. I guess this is a consequence of JavaScript’s dynamic nature.

Looking for the better way to combine deep architecture refactoring with feature based development

Problem statement: Given: TFS as Source Control Heavy desktop client application with tons of legacy code with bad or almost absent architecture design. Clients constantly requiring new features with sound quality, fast delivery and constantly complaining on user unfriendly UI. Problem: Application undoubtedly requires deep refactoring. This process inevitably makes application unstable and dedicated stabilization […]

How do I prevent unknowningly duplicating code?

I work on a rather large code base. Hundreds of classes, tons of different files, lots of functionality, takes more than 15 minutes to pull down a fresh copy, etc.

is this javascript property defaulting pattern a code smell?

In some javascript code I’m working on refactoring I’ve handled cases where I wanted to default an object property to true without having to go through the code-base and add the property to every instance of the object by doing something like this:

How to avoid huge functions with made up of enums and if-else or switch case when dealing with server response in iOS?

in my application,
I have a request type associated with variety of API calls I make to the REST server.
when the response from server comes in the same delegate method for web engine’s response,