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I’ve been beta testing Krugle for some time, and Yesterday they went live. It has already saved me quite some time when coding on different projects.
Krugle is a search engine specifically targeted at developers. It indexes source code, technical information and information on projects and lets you search it using a very nice web interface (very Web 2.0).
Recently I’ve been feeling a bit fed up with the whole Web 2.0 thing. I develop software, including web applications, for a living, so of course I appreciate the “new” possibilities that have emerged from XMLHttpRequest etc, but sometimes it just seems… a bit much. There’s also the Ruby on Rails movement. I’ve tried Ruby (the language) but there’s going to take a lot to drag me away from Perl, I’ll tell you that.
Recently I’ve been unsubscribing a lot of my Web 2.0 related feeds on Bloglines, and it actually feels good. I need a break. I’m also doing a lot of regular native client programming (C# in .NET) at work right now, which also feels good.
Maybe I’m just cranky ‘coz I can’t keep up with all the cool javascript libraries being released every other day. :)
I’ve been trying out this cool new Firefox extension tonight. It’s called FireBug. It’s purpose is to help you debug Javascript, DHTML and Ajax (XMLHttpRequest). According to the webpage over at mozilla.org, it’s “like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter“. When opened, it places itself at the bottom of the browser window and it only shows errors from the webpage you are currently viewing. It also has a nifty statusbar error indicator that shows how many errors were found on the current page. Cool stuff!
I’m sure a gazillion people have blogged this already but I just found out. Googles new toy is a news feed reader called “Google Reader“. I’ve been using Bloglines for a while now. It’s going to be interesting to see if Google succeeds in this area as well. They sure seem to be heading straight for world domination.
OK, I’ve been “on the ‘net” since 1994 and I’ve seen many, many strange things. Nowadays, I don’t get surprised that often. Today I stumbled upon this site: Crying While Eating. I have one question. No, I don’t. I have many questions, but the first one is: Why? Google often helps me when I’m at a loss, but this time I only found a reference to a movie called “On again – Off again”. The review talks about “…and Bert Wheeler’s re-creation of his classic “crying while eating” vaudeville routine.“. I don’t feel particularly enlightened yet.