Tag Archives: code

8 Code Snippet Sites

Snippet sites first cropped up as a way of sharing code with others in IRC and forums where formatted code with syntax highlighting wasn’t practical. Since then they’ve grown to provide version control, sharing and other features. Here’s a quick list of the major players. Personally – I’d recommend Github. dZone Snippets Part of the [...]

Chrome Extension: Augment Search

Just released first Chrome Extension: Augment Search. Its been heavily inspired by BetterSearch which is available on Firefox. I wanted this mainly for myself nut thought it’d be worth releasing to. Will hopefully be the first of many. Get It Download from Google What It Does Adds links to other search results pages for: Google, [...]

Saturday Code Quote: 3

Step away form the computer… newlocation must now be the absolute path on newhost. If not we’ve been redirected to somewhere totally stupid (oh yeah, no offsite linking, go to our fucking front page). Say goodbye to the webserver in this case. In fact, we don’t even say goodbye, but just drop the connection. From [...]

Saturday Code Quote: 1

This is going to be the first in a series of funny source code comments I happen to stumble across.  First up is the Apache Jakarta project… Someone’s not flushing the office toilet – eew: /** * A Writer based on a wrapped Writer but ignoring requests to * close() and flush() it. (Someone must [...]