[Developers] Acre Code Search

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

Shawn Simister wrote:
> Acre Code Search is great. I've already used it a couple of times when 
> I'm convinced there's a better way to code something.
> 
> I don't know if this is possible but it would be interesting to be able 
> to search for cloned scripts or applications. That way, if you find an 
> interesting script you could see how other people are using it in their 
> apps.

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. Can you elaborate more?

thx!

> 
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>> On behalf of the platform group, I'm happy to announce the availability 
>> of a useful Acre app written by Jason, David and myself that makes use 
>> of the awesome lucene-powered freebase "relevance" engine (the same one 
>> that powers the autocomplete search box in freebase) to search for code 
>> in acre apps.
>>
>> I personally find it very useful as a way to look for 'recipes' in other 
>> people's code and find out how they did something, or how they used a 
>> particular API.
>>
>> Hope you find it as helpful as we do.
>>
>> Comments, suggestions and criticism, as usual, are more than welcome.
>>
>>   
> 
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Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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