On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:54:05 AM UTC-5, blackthorne wrote:
>
> Oddly enough, I can't find a good code snippet network.
> GitHub and alikes made a great step with code sharing for full
> projects. You can search for projects not code snippets.
> There are many snippet managers that help you managing your snippets.
> Your code snippets.
> There isn't much of a link between the previous two.
>
> A snippet manager that also allows to search for snippets in others
> code. I believe that there is room for success here for someone able
> to do a cross-platform tool combining the capabilities to manage and
> search/
> share code and a good integration. This is a very active minority made
> of programmers that use their own tools and consider functionality
> over the most. There is technology for this, a public XML-RPC API, a
> website and some plugins for main IDE's. I also believe this would be
> great for ourselves and for web2py visibility if this website used it.
>
> Imagine writing your code, find a problem you never solved before and,
> with minimal effort be able to search for very specific code samples
> that you can use to learn and even apply when appropriate, always
> without leaving your Emacs...
>
Cool idea. Not exactly what you describe, but maybe a step in the right
direction: http://nullege.com/
