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- petepete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It seems ok... I copied a random line from a book lying on my desk and it found it correctly identified the book and page number.
A better search engine for code that I use from time to time is www.koders.com - whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12that's what my boss said the other day when he tried to make a backup utility, thinking it was all so easy because he was able to drag and drop a datagrid onto a windows form and bind to a database table. yeah, he almost deleted all of our customer data that day. i promptly uninstalled visual studio and removed the SDK from his machine. do not pass go; do not collect $200.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Brackets are sexy.
- ferox3000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Because VB is regarded as a preschool language with no power to do anything useful.
ps: Yes, I am am a VB developer.
pps: VB.Net is capable of everything that C# can do. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6... and I don't think you really want to know why ASP isn't there.
We could tell you, but you'd probably cry. - neuralcooker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Because VB is regarded as a preschool language with no power to do anything useful."
People may regard it as such but it's certainly not the case, as you certainly know.
Just like people think writing ASP is not really coding either. Yeah right. ASP is not only coding but it normally frickin' hard for anything beyond "toy" applications. But people seem to judge ASP on the merit of those "toy" apps (just like JavaScript is). I still remember the first time I was writing ASP to generate dynamic client side HTML and JavaScript code to work and look the same on both IE & Netscape, talk about a difficult programming task. I was starting to be envious of the guys writing the C++ / COM code in the middle-tier. Talk about a way simpler task and usually for more pay at that. - fl00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I like that the results are color coded.
- ferox3000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No, it means that anyone can THINK they are a developer. What it really means is anyone can now attempt to make a glorified HelloWorld app with some fancy controls on a window. It takes a lot more to put together a fullscale application that doesn't inadvertantly crash a server, wipe out data or nuke a small third world nation.
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No IDL.
Am I the only one in the world who uses it? I am, aren't I...
I'm so lonely. *tear* - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's why ASP sucks. Because it's over-cumbersome, and there are other languages out there that can do the same job... easier.
- daltonvoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here are several other code search sites:
http://www.google.com/codesearch
http://www.koders.com/
http://www.codase.com/
http://www.krugle.com/ - neuralcooker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah this is sweet, but from their about page,
"Our revenue comes from selling your books. We hope that you are pleased with our efforts, but if you are not, you may request we remove your book from our indices. Please contact author relations at the address below."
It's applications of collected knowledge like this that make me wish that copyright laws in the US would be limited back to the status it was back around 1790 (14 years protection only if you apply for it and an optional renewal period of another 14 years; and copyright not covering derived works like it bizarrely does now). Allowing people to have monopolies on writing and ideas, and even ideas that are based on those ideas by other people, that lasts in practice forever, even if it is their own work, is madness for a culture. - malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hardly ever use the custom controls in ASP.NET because I just don't like how some of them work. The datagrid retrieves all data from the database and then pages it, meaning if you have 1,000 pages of data you have a datagrid with 1,000 pages downloaded every single time even if you only need the first 2 pages. I've ended up learning more because I can't stand not doing things properly, which is good, but I also end up not using some of the 'features' that are supposed to make asp.net so good.
Now I know there are ways to make the datagrid work in a more efficient way, but it seems like to much effort when I can easily write my own. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As long as there's a market, you'll be highly paid...
... unless it's phased out, then you're SOL - Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No SQUEAK!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lmao
Yeah, don't you love bosses who think they know how to code because they work with geeks?
It's best to keep them as far away from the code as possible... in a different building, preferably :)
P.S. my original post was a joke :) - xamox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Krugle is the best. It has syntax highlighting, searching within files, download just the file or the entire project, tabs for each search opened. What is really nice about this, espically for college students (I can speak from experience) that finding algorithms in any language is a snap. For instance quicksort, you can find it in any language. It makes it very convient instead of just searching google because a lot of times you'll have to hear the theory behind it and get some pseudocode instead of the real deal.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Sweet! Now anyone can be a developer!
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*smashes head on desk* ... correction
" most familiar with c++ and therefore more likely to adopt c# over VB.net." - affinity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is actually amazing. I love it
- teeheehee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Codefetch search of 'C' language for "closesocket"
* Sorry, there were no sample code results for closesocket
Krugle search of 'C' language for "closesocket"
* Code Files 1-10 (out of about 3381 matching files)
Think I'll be sticking with Krugle for now. It may not be books it's searching through, but it's more useful (for me.) - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because c# is more aesthetically similar to c++, which is practically the industry standard so practically every experienced professional is proficient and most familiar with c# and therefore more likely to adopt it.
Also... VB has bad vibes to those seasoned professionals. It's just too noob. - underthelinux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Look, i'm not saying its a great language. But there still are plenty of people who have to code in both vb and asp. (I'm one of them). If you're going to make a site like CodeSearch, i just think it should be (fairly) complete.
- kettle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not particularly spectacular.
- neuralcooker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, good point, rages-4calm. Yeah now that I think of it, maybe the problem I'm thinking of is not so much the language but the problem space of writing stuff that will work the same on a number of different browsers. I can think of development frameworks that make this way easier today (Rails, AJAX packages, JetSpeed, those types of things) but no languages really. I'm actually having the same type of problem right now building something that will work on both IE and Firefox with Java/Velocity on the server end.
- rages4calm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another good one that isn't exactly a search engine but close enough would be http://www.programmersheaven.com/
- SuperJimmyJimbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No William Shatner = No Digg
- jwbrint, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Why no VB.Net?
- underthelinux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2How come there's no Visual Basic or ASP?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1oops
- Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1fag
I kid, I kid. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3SPAMALICIOUS.
- prateeksriv, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0doesn't give very good results. and only 1 page!
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