Snip-It Pro, A Code Snippet Organization Tool 2.0
SAVE CODE SNIPPETS, KEYSTROKES AND TIME
Save Snippets, Keystrokes and Time with Snip-It Pro, the code library organizer designed to make developers, designers and database professionals more productive. Put your favorite queries, JavaScript functions, helper classes, CSS hacks, regular expressions, command line arguments, html blocks and other useful code you find online in one place... Snip-It Pro has two windows: the Snippet Toolbar, which docks to the side of your screen allowing you to drag and drop snippets to almost any application, and the Snippet Explorer which used to edit snippet details with syntax highlighting and printing support... Snip-It Pro lets you store snippets anywhere. Put them on a network share and your entire team can use the same snippet collections... Import and Export snippets and send collections of snippets as a single file... Save Time using templated code snippets. This feature allows you to define placeholders in your snippets, which can be easily replaced before use... Save keystrokes with global hot key support. You can assign frequently used snippets a global hot key which will insert your snippet into any application... Track snippet usage with automatic comments. This feature can automatically add comments in all supported languages above your snippet that indicate a unique searchable ID, a reference url, the current user and the date a snippet was used. When you copy snippets from the web, Snip-It Pro tracks the url where it came from... Snip-It Pro is integrated with Snipplr, an online community for sharing code snippets. With Snip-It Pro you can view your favorite snippets as well as publish snippets directly to Snipplr... Snip-It Pro monitors the windows clipboard... Search your snippet library using the built in search feature... Snip-It Pro supports syntax highlihting for many languages including: ASP, C#, C++, C, CSS, Batch, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, Pascal, Python, SQL, VB, VB.Net, VB Script and more... Be more productive with Snip-It Pro.
Code Snippets have been criticized as the tool of the copy paste programmer, who instead of writing code themselves, copies pieces of code from the internet without understanding how it actually works. When this style of programming is used frequently, it is sometimes referred to as "copypasta, " which urbandictionary.com defines as "the spaghetti code resulting from repeatedly copy/pasting lines of code within a program."
Searching for "Code Snippets" on Google returns 5.75 million results. Snippets of code can be found in technical blogs, open source projects, and articles on technical web sites. The quality of this code varies widely. Scott Hanselman coined the term "Bathroom wall of Code" on his blog to refer to the amount of trust you should put into code found online.
Despite this bad reputation, code snippets are seeing a renaissance online, with several online communities dedicated to sharing code snippets gaining popularity. Sites like DZone Snippets, Snipt and Snipplr allow users to share code snippets in a wide variety of languages. The number of users and snippets for sites like these grow every day.
One of those code sharing sites, Snipplr is home to over 13, 000 snippets that were saved by over 12, 000 users. Almost 8, 000 snippets have been added in the last year alone. That's not only a lot of code, but a lot of interest in code snippets.
"The reason code snippets will always be popular is that they usually work, " says David San Filippo, creator of Snip-It Pro, a tool dedicated to organizing code snippets. "Using snippets is easy and saves time. Remembering the syntactic sugar needed in most modern programming languages is hard work. Most programming problems have been solved already. If a code snippet can save someone hours of debugging, and lost productivity, how could you not search for a solution online?"
The tool his company makes, Snip-It Pro, is one of many tools designed to organizing code. Most Integrated Development environments have some sort of text saving feature, but stand alone products like Snip-It Pro take it a step further, with support for code snippet templates and the ability to automatically comment a snippet with a unique ID and the url of the site where it was found. Snip-It Pro even integrates with Snipplr, allowing you to access all your favorite snippets and publish your own snippets easily.
The number of websites and communities growing to share code snippets will ensure that the amount of code found online will only increase. And while these tools and websites make it easier to find and use code found online, they don`t address the quality issue. In the end, it doesn`t matter so much where a snippet came from, as long as the person using it actually understands it.
What is new in 2.0 software version? - Snip-It Pro 2.0 has introduced a ton of new functionality including Syntax Highlighting, Snippet Tagging, Code Snippet Templates, Automatic Commenting, Global Hot Key Support, Integration with Snipplr, an online community for sharing code snippets, Printing Support, 6 New UI Styles and more.. What is expected in the future? Newly-made Snip-It Pro, A Code Snippet Organization Tool 2.1 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 2.2 release build. You may download SnipItProSetup.exe directly, estimated download time by ISDN or CDMA [~128 kbit/s] is 0:02:00. Just write the reviews of the Snip-It Pro, A Code Snippet Organization Tool. System requirements are .Net 2.0 or higher. Supports both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and Snip-It Pro, A Code Snippet Organization Tool found to be clean. The following languages are supported by Snip-It Pro, A Code Snippet Organization Tool: English.
