31.07.2006
I'm pretty sure everyone in IT has heard about digg by now. It's one of the great symbols of "Web2.0", a word that almost makes me vomit.
It's greatest strengt is probably also it greatest weakness: It's entirely community driven. Basicly what made slashdot suck when a bunch of morons decided to come about, will make digg suck even more as soon as it builds up a big enough userbase.
However, between all the junk that gets posted there, between all the fancy AJAX and javascripting, between all the zealous fanboys posting non-stories and replies to said non-stories... Sometimes, if you are lucky enough to catch it while it's still on the frontpage, you may find some interesting things.
Today I found this handy thing. A search engine specific for source-code.
It's very Web2.0-ish, which sort of makes it hard to like at first (for me anyway), but I did try it out, and I did find highly relevant code almost immediately.
For developers it might come in handy. Check it out.