July 30, 2009 by Screenbeard
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
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So I’m looking to start storing short bits of code online. With my Java course starting tonight, it might be nice to have a place to share and exchange code with my classmates, and store for later use. I’ve been checking out some online code snippet repositories, and narrowed it down to two of the best.
Snipt.net is very pretty. It has a lovely ajaxy interface that swooshes and swashes around when you add and edit code, and just exudes polish. It has an embed function that allows you to post to a website and have the code remain up-to-date no matter how many revisions you make. Someone has also made a WordPress plugin that makes the embedding even easier (which is nice for my purposes). What it lacks right now is an API (they’ve asked for help from the community, but there doesn’t seem to be much there right now).
Snipplr.com on the other hand is all about the API. They have plugins for all sorts of IDEs, and like Snipt, a WordPress plugin (which on the other hand won’t let me input my API key…). They offer a bookmarklet to quickly add code from your browser, and a Textmate bundle for those of you who like that sort of thing. Like Snipt, embedding snippets is a breeze but unlike Snipt, Snipplr keeps previous versions, so revising code never overwrites previous work completely.
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Tags: learning, services, snipplr, snipt.net
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July 28, 2009 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
This site was always just a place to practice my website building skills and publish something to attach to my name if anyone came looking for me. As I didn’t have a burning need driving me to write (other than my first post), I’ve struggled sometimes to find anything to write about.
That probably won’t change — I’m not a writer deep in my soul — but I’m hoping that as I begin my TAFE course I might find stuff to post more frequently. I’m going to study programming (beginning with JAVA), and I’m expecting to write about some of the things I’m learning. So let this be a warning to you if you visit here regularly (yes my three loyal readers, I’m talking to you), I may be posting programming stuff, including code bits, and expanding on what I’m learning as I go, so if you don’t get programming, or are a super-coder you may want to skim over my posts (or even better, correct me when I’m wrong).
Just a heads up.
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July 28, 2009 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
My good friend Elle has started a product review site called Do I Keep It?. The site covers an assortment of products under broad categories such as “Health and Beauty”, “Pets”, and “Technology and Entertainment”.
The site is new, and has only been semi-officially launched, but she’s working hard on it. The reviews are short and well written, and kinda cute. For example, her first review (and my favourite) is for Coles brand Bathroom Wipes, which I’m fairly certain has never been reviewed ever before — so, you know world exclusive!
I’ve also written a guest review for the site for PaperClip Stapleless Staplers, and Elle was kind enough to publish it. I hope to write more for the site in future. I also have to say, I CAME UP WITH THE NAME HOW AWESOME AM I?!
You can also follow @doikeepit on Twitter.
Do I Keep It?
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July 22, 2009 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
It’s getting silly really. I spend so much time updating this blog, without actually publishing anything. This is another test to test my new shortening service using Yourls. It should send a tweet out with my own url.
I’m working on a new theme though, so that’s something.
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July 18, 2009 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
Can any aadvark molecular biologists help me to to find a primer-primer interactions detection software, I think I have to deal with several probes annealing together in a multiplex assay but I cannot solve it ? An Aardvark Question on Bioinformatics
What the hell does that even mean?! I complained on twitter that I was getting silly Aardvark questions. I think they’re getting me back by ratcheting up the difficulty a notch.
Tags: aardvark, fun
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