From: Daniel Higginbotham <daniel@...>
Date: 2006-08-05T12:22:21+09:00
Subject: Re: spread your best code-snippets

I'd add 5. dont be textsnippets.com - has anyone noticed that it looks just 
like programmingishard.com, only with a worse design because of the google 
ads? :)

One thing I'd like to see is a "snippet a day" or "tip a day" site to help 
with my morning procrastination ritual.

On Thursday 03 August 2006 20:15, John Gabriele wrote:
> On 8/2/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "naPOLeon" <naPOLeon.Polzer@gmx.de> writes:
> > > I just ran over a nice code-snippet online-database: 'Programming is
> > > Hard' at http://programmingishard.com/
> > >
> > > So let's spread our best Ruby-Code to help the others out there to
> > > improve their code.
> >
> > This is the third kind of snippet site I see today---they all look the
> > same.  Wouldn't it be more effective to unify them?
>
> ActiveState does this for a number of languages:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/
>
> The keys to making this work really well, I would think, would be:
>
> 1. Keep the snippets categorized for easy browsing.
>
> 2. Provide a means for users to comment on the snippets (since they
> may want to provide corrections or alternatives).
>
> 3. Explicitly specify the terms by which all the snippets will be made
> available (public domain might make the most sense here).
>
> 4. Provide a link to download all snippets in a tar.gz file. (Oooh --
> maybe even including the user comments as separate text files... [muah
> ha ha ha!])
>
> Might make a great but simple RoR project for some scrappy Rubyist pup!
>
> ---John