http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2006/03/10/549189.aspxOne potential often missed in a large IT organization is the potential for us to lift up another person's design skills. Perhaps we are competitive, or perhaps sometimes, we figure that "it's all the same anyway," but a lot of IT project designers don'ten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2006/03/10/549189.aspx#551940Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:01:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:551940Ed KirwanNice point. <br> <br>I recently asked for any sample of Beautiful Java Code, but didn't get any replies. <br> <br>I maybe should instead have asked for any code that anyone has published that they don't think is crap. <br> <br>It's spurred me to publish something myself, which I'm doing (though, I admit, I'm polishing some concepts just for this exercise, which means that they weren't up-to-scratch in the first place) - do you know of any code that's published, that we can read, and that the author thinks is OK? <br> <br>And don't get me started on sourceforge: I just can't find great stuff; crucial here is documentation, and JavaDocs alone just don't cut it. <br> <br>Does Microsoft have a place where they publish ... well, not entire applications, but not just tutorial snippets either? And most important: does someone thing these postings are good? <br> <br>.edhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/archive/2006/03/10/549189.aspx#554445Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:55:54 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:554445NickMalikTry GotDotNet. &nbsp;Another place would be a couple of the more visible open source systems (nUnit comes to mind, as does DotNetNuke). &nbsp;With lots of hands in the code, good docs are a must. &nbsp;Plus refactoring happens a lot.