Video of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjHZFTbg6gg
John talks about guidelines and code smells for improving object API design. He takes an existing class and demonstrates refactoring it to a leaner more focused version of its previous self. Most importantly, what questions to ask yourself as you're writing new classes.
Pass 1 (and a future Part 2) will approach refactoring a class from the outside as opposed to the inside. We discuss topics like breaking apart bigger classes to make smaller classes that do one thing, programming without getters and setters, consistent entry/return points, and guidelines for object instantiation. This talk focuses less on in-function refactoring and more on API-level refactoring.