Comments on: 3 Places To Keep Your Pocket Code (Besides Your Pocket)

By: Fervent Coder

Fervent Coder — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:49:30 +0000

Blog. I try to put any self-created cool code snippets there, but I agree with everyone on not being a copy/paste person. I do sometimes think about something I have used before and find myself trying to get back to that code to see how I tackled it and use it as a starting point for approaching new problems (improving on the original though).

By: Nino Benvenuti

Nino Benvenuti — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:46:06 +0000

Another place for code is Code:Keep http://www.codekeep.net

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By: Shahar

Shahar — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:23:47 +0000

I am usually posting them in my blog. That way I “save” them for pesonal usage and more important – I share them with my readers and with future google searchers.
If I have a little piece of code that is “project specific” (can’t be shared in my blog), I am writing a code snippet or create a static utility class – depends on the situation.

By: Max Pool

Max Pool — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:09:06 +0000

Good catch Tim – sorry for misspeaking, meant to say “frown upon” – good catch it is fixed now.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:55:08 +0000

What definition of condone are you using?!?

By: superjason

superjason — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:06:22 +0000

I tend to create blog posts out of them. That makes them show up in Google, and gives me a great format for explaining it.

By: Dave Donaldson

Dave Donaldson — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:40:50 +0000

With over 11,000 code snippets stored to date, CodeKeep (www.codekeep.net) is a widely used site for storing pocket code.

By: Chris Chandler

Chris Chandler — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:37:00 +0000

My pocket code lives in an assembly, but its long since been shelved. Now I write it, every time, all the time.

I assume you mean code like, a recursive method, or a loop that deletes something out of an array, or an html helper that builds a select box? If thats what you mean, most of that code can be generated anyway. The rest should be written by hand, ever time. This stave’s off the code scurvy created by copy/paste.

By: Jason Stangroome

Jason Stangroome — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:12:32 +0000

I don’t like copying and pasting “pocket” code because it evolves over time and finding and maintaining every copy of the code is a pain.

However, I haven’t really found a good way to collect it into well organised assemblies either.

I guess I’ll blog it for others and, as Garry suggests, just rewrite it each time, making it better.