tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45660529626011836352024-03-18T02:16:44.130-07:00Snippets.me BlogDo not Reinvent Your CodeVladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-65871875053881630012013-10-11T04:32:00.001-07:002013-10-11T04:33:03.691-07:00Enabling Snippets Expander on OS X 10.9 MavericksFrom day to day Apple will release OS X 10.9 Mavericks which will brake Snippets Expander functionality. Snippets is one of the many helpful tools that requires you to "Enable access for assistive devices" to be able to do more than allowed by default. In pre-Mavericks versions you have to go to System Preferences -> Accessibility and check an option named "Enable access for assistive devices".<br />
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If you try to do the same on OS X 10.9 you will have difficulties finding this checkbox. It's gone. Well, hopefully they just moved it to another place. Now you have to open <b>System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility</b> and enable Snippets in the listing. You may also need to click on Lock icon and enter your password to unlock preferences from making changes.<br />
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Enjoy and happy coding! <br />
<br />Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-48274609569343262172013-09-13T06:56:00.001-07:002013-09-13T07:00:34.134-07:00How about using Dropbox or iCloud for sync in Snippets?<div class="p1">
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Periodically I am asked the same question about using Dropbox or iCloud for sync in Snippets. I decided to give an answer to this question in this blog, so, I can just refer to it when someone asks again.<br />
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The short answer is: we are building a product with many benefits for users instead of just an application that can store some bytes of data and sync it between computers. <br />
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Sync is just one of the benefits of using Snippets. If we had chosen Dropbox or iCloud for sync we would be in the following situation:<br />
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<li>We would need to sell an app to be able to support further development, because we would have no other way to make money from it. Instead we can give an app for free, have more people using it and make money by charging for the advanced premium features.</li>
<li>There are many features that will not be possible when using Dropbox or iCloud for sync. For example, web application, private and public sharing, changes history, access level management, search by publicly shared snippets, open repository of snippets and some other ideas that we don't want to share yet.</li>
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Those are limitations from product point of view, and they are the most critical ones. Also, there are many technical limitations that stop us from using these services with Snippets:<br />
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<li>iCloud is available only for applications that are distributed via Mac App Store. This may be another subject for a discussion, however, Snippets won't be MAC-only.</li>
<li>Obviously, iCloud is not available on Windows.</li>
<li>I still have doubts about Apple's ability to build viable universal sync service. They failed with such products in the past and they did it multiple times, it's extremely hard to implement universal sync service. </li>
<li>iCloud as well as Dropbox was designed to sync files (Apple likes to call it Documents) which is not a good fit for Snippets. I know there are some workarounds, but workaround is bad by definition.</li>
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So, the answer is NO, we won't use either iCloud or Dropbox for synchronization in Snippets.<br />
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If you still have any related question, you are welcome to ask them in comments.Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-30960329585315013482013-08-04T07:37:00.000-07:002013-08-04T07:52:29.077-07:00Snippets Distributor for Xcode 5Snippets <a href="http://snippets.me/distributors/xcode-distributor.html" target="_blank">Distributor for Xcode</a> now supports Xcode 5 Developer Preview. All you need to do is to update Distributor for Xcode or install it if you haven't yet. To do that open Distributors window by pressing Cmd+Shift+D (or from menu Window->Distributors) and click "Update" or "Install" respectively near the Xcode in listing.<br />
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If you are not familiar with <a href="http://snippets.me/distributors/" target="_blank">Snippets Distributors</a> yet, it is plugin for Snippets that syncs code snippets from its library with the target app's (app that distributor is written for) library, so, these snippets are available for reuse natively in this app.<br />
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Here is a quick demo of the Distributor for Xcode:<br />
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Code highlighting is "must have" feature for any tool that deal with the source code, however it's not a core feature for Snippets as it is for code editors. We did not wanted to spend a lot of time creating our own editor, and we did not know any good implementation until recently we discovered <a href="http://ace.ajax.org/" target="_blank">Ace Editor</a>.<br />
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Ace is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript which makes it an ideal solution for Snippets that we can use in desktop apps for Mac and Windows and in a web browser for our Web app as well as some other secret tools that are coming out soon. It is the same editor that is used and maintained by <a href="https://c9.io/" target="_blank">Cloud9 IDE</a>, so it's very solid, fast and well tested code editor. During the development it shows great performance and we like it.<div>
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Please <a href="http://snippets.me/download" target="_blank">download</a>/update Snippets and enjoy.</div>
Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-56847489125311112652013-07-11T06:41:00.000-07:002013-07-11T06:59:28.688-07:00Snippets Distributors for JetBrains IDEs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are happy to announce availability of Snippets Distributors for all JetBrains' IDEs. <a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/" target="_blank">JetBrains</a> is a great company that makes smart IDEs for many languages and technologies. If you don't use them we encourage you at least to try, you will love it.<br />
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Here is the full list of supported IDEs:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/" target="_blank">Intellij IDEA</a> Ultimate and Community edition</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/" target="_blank">AppCode</a> on Mac only</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/" target="_blank">ReSharper</a> obviously on Windows only. It is supported by the Distributor for Visual Studio.</li>
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There is one small thing that makes using Snippets Distributor with all these IDEs (except ReSharper) a bit uncomfortable. If you make any changes in your library or distributor settings, you have to restart IDE in order to reflect these changes.</div>
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I've tried to convince guys from JetBrains to implement automatic reloading, but I have no luck. Internally this is not needed for IDE and this is not so small task to implement. Based on our communication, we have two options to improve this:<br />
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<li>Implement automatic reloading of settings in Intellij IDEA Community Edition and send pull request. If they accept, it it will spread to all the other IDE since they are bases on Intellij IDEA community edition. <a href="https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community" target="_blank">Here is the repository</a>.</li>
<li>Vote for <a href="http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-6708" target="_blank">this</a> task. We hope that there will be enough votes to get the attention of responsible team to this task. </li>
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To install any of the available distributors, open Distributors window by pressing Cmd+Shift+D on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows, find it in Online Gallery listing and click install. You also need to enable it by selecting Enabled checkbox.</div>
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If you enjoyed using distributors so far, I’d be very grateful if you’d help it spread by sharing it with your friends on Twitter or Facebook. Thank you!<br />
<br />Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-60450148156556527792013-06-27T01:45:00.000-07:002013-06-28T07:45:41.704-07:00Snippets Distributor for Xcode just got better<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today we have a great news for our Xcode users. Recently we published an updated version of distributor for Xcode which now includes a small helper plug-in that reloads code snippets on the go, restarting Xcode is not required anymore. It just works.<br />
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Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-62738667635385490052013-06-13T10:01:00.000-07:002013-06-13T10:02:50.975-07:00One-click installations and updates for DistributorsToday we've published an update for Snippets 0.7.1 for Mac and 0.7.2 for Windows that introduces one-click updates and installations for distributors from within Distributors window. It looks like this:<br />
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As a result we don't bundle any distributor with Snippets distributive anymore.<br />
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Now when you reuse snippet's code with Expander, Global search and Assistant we replace code variables with it's values. This is because it makes no sense to insert the whole variable code if editor will not recognize it as a variable. </div>
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However, in Xcode, for example, when you paste code that has a variable in Xcode's format it will recognize it. In this case we do not replace it with its default value but with the variable that Xcode recognizes.</div>
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For example snippet with code "Hello ${Name:World}" will be inserted using mentioned earlier instruments into TextEdit or Notepad as "Hello World", but as "Hello <#World#>" into Xcode where <#World#> is a variable.</div>
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Some other small features and improvements were introduces as well. Please check out release notes for <a href="http://snippets.me/win/release-notes.html" target="_blank">Windows</a> and <a href="http://snippets.me/mac/release-notes.html" target="_blank">Mac</a> clients.</div>
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Now it's time to create more distributors. So, stay tuned and happy coding!</div>
Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-65953751566847311482013-05-21T01:30:00.000-07:002013-05-25T07:40:54.035-07:00Snippets 0.7 and Distributors — the new power of Snippets.In the <a href="http://blog.snippets.me/2012/06/welcome-to-new-snippets.html">initial post</a> (actually first post in this blog) where we introduced new Snippets I told about 4 core values of Snippets. We started by creating desktop apps for Mac and Windows which support sync from the box, and continued with integration.<br />
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Recently we discussed <a href="http://blog.snippets.me/2013/04/the-biggest-problem-with-code-snippets.html">the fundamental problem of standalone</a> code snippets apps which has not been solved by anyone yet. Well, until now. The reason we raised this question is because we have a solution and today we are very excited to announce our new invention which we call <a href="http://snippets.me/distributors/">Snippets Distributors</a>.<br />
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Distributors are plugins for Snippets that allow you to reuse code snippets from your library in code editor natively. At first glance, it may be hard to understand what it is and how it works, but in reality it is very simple, and once you try it, you will love it.<br />
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We've prepared a presentation which explains Distributors with less words. Please take a look:<br />
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Distributors are available in Snippets 0.7 on both Mac and Windows. By updating or downloading the latest version of Snippets you will get them all. We've also created a <a href="http://snippets.me/distributors/list.html">directory of Distributors</a> where you can find all available distributors as well as specific notes to each of them.<br />
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Using distributors is very easy. Just download or update currently installed version, open Distributors window by pressing Cmd+Shift+D on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows, select distributor on the left side, select “Enable” checkbox and you are done. By default all snippets which has code and tab trigger defined will be available in the editor. Please note that some editors should be restarted in order to make new code snippets available. We recommend to try it with TextMate 2 (Mac only) or Sublime Text 2 (Mac and Windows), these editors will pick up everything automatically without restarting them.<br />
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Please try it and let us know what you think.Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-28216350003379937702013-04-23T03:52:00.003-07:002013-05-21T01:39:15.965-07:00The biggest problem with the code snippets manager appsWhen you think about code snippets management there are three instruments available for developers that come to mind.<br />
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Editors with built-in code snippets functionality usually support it natively with features such as placeholders, variables, tabs stops, tab triggers etc. However, most of the time it has poor management interface, all snippets are tied to a single editor and have no sync. <br />
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On the other side, standalone code snippets apps have a much better UI with great management as their main feature, very often support synchronization, code snippets are available to any app installed on the system and to the team members (if sharing is supported), but they lack the ability to use native stuff such as placeholders, variables and tab stops. <br />
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So, obviously, it’s impossible to utilize the advantages of both components by using them together and it’s not quite handy to use them separately. It’s just not as efficient as it could be. </div>
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From my point of view, it is a huge issue with code snippets managers. And Snippets is not an exception. Of course, developers are trying to invent workarounds to solve it. For example, Snippets has Snippets Expander feature that allows you to insert a code snippet into the editor’s window by typing its tab string but without variables, tab stops, etc. <a href="http://kapeli.com/dash_resources/s4.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dash developers created</a> a popup window with an editor that allows you to define variables prior to insertion.<br />
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Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-15381460965084029912012-11-28T05:26:00.001-08:002012-11-28T09:41:15.857-08:00Snippets for Windows 0.6.1We've just released a minor update for Snippets for Windows. In addition to small bug fixes this update fixes the way it works with the terminal-like apps on Windows.<br />
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The problem is that Snippets simulates pressing Ctrl+V when pastes snippets' code whether you use SnippetsAssistant (through global search or Task Bar) or SnippetsExpander. However, terminal apps on Windows do not allow to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy/Paste functionality. Instead Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert should be used.<br />
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We decided to make it configurable, so you can tell Snippets which keystroke to use in particular application. There is a config file at <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Snippets\UserSettings.xml</span>. Content of this file is fairly self-explanatory, feel free to edit this file. Relaunch of Snippets is required to apply the changes.</div>
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Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-35197047973645318152012-11-08T05:47:00.001-08:002013-07-23T07:18:05.098-07:00Snippets 0.6 for Mac and WindowsYesterday we released a new update of Snippets for Mac and Windows. It brings quite a few minor features, all the major changes are under the hood. It improves performance and stability of the synchronisation.<br />
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This release also switches to the new version of the sync API which was slightly changed from the previous one. If you were using the older version you should update, otherwise sync won't work.<br />
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Now that known sync issues have been fixed we are going to send invites to all who requested them. If you not received it during this day (Nov 7th) please make sure you requested one <a href="http://snippets.me/request-invite" target="_blank">here</a>.Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-56295893483603165932012-07-19T02:55:00.000-07:002012-09-05T02:05:18.013-07:00Some clarifications about old and new SnippetsSince we announced the new project there has been a bit of misunderstanding and confusion. So, I decided to explain in more details to avoid misunderstanding in the future and answer to the questions.<br />
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At some point I realized that a single code snippets manager for a single platform is nothing in the view what it could be so that anyone can benefit.<span style="background-color: white;"> There should be something more than that. </span><br />
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Early 2011 was the great time in history of Snippets for me to rethink and do this "something more than that". In my view it should be at least native apps on Mac and Windows apps that integrates with OS and development tools, Web application which runs in browser, sync and collaborative services that allows you to share snippets or groups of snippets publicly or privately in teams.<br />
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I decided that priority number one at the beginning should be the native desktop apps for Mac and Windows which can sync over the cloud natively and then adding the new features to them. Since the very beginning of Snippets the desire to create such a project has never left me. With that in mind I've started working on it.<br />
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I had about 8 years on web development and for the last two years I have been learning Cocoa programming for Mac. I thought I should be able to develop we part including sync service and Mac app. To fill the gap with Windows development I invited Andrei Lapitski who was working for the enterprise company.<br />
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One more question to consider at that time was "What to do with the current version of Snippets". It has some bottlenecks and some design issues. It uses Core Data with XML database which is slow, especially on big databases (300+ snippets) and for search (By the way, some of you have <a href="https://twitter.com/sparrwhawk/status/225296559078785025" target="_blank">realized a difference</a> already). It turns out that to cut Core Data from the app is a long time job. Also we should have been supported sync natively as its core. So, I decided to start Snippets for Mac from scratch.<br />
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The question that pops out now and which adds a little bit of confusion is that the old version is 1.4 and the new one is 0.5... Weird right? Well, we wanted to match Windows and Mac versions. So, the other option is to start with Windows version at 2.0 which is weird too. Since this is a new project our decision was to start both of them from 1.0.<br />
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Now I'd like to answer to the haters claims on MacUpdate pages for <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/44026/snippets" target="_blank">Snippets</a> and <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33258/snippets" target="_blank">old Snippets</a> who says that old Snippets is abandoned software. As you can understand it's not easy and fast to create a sync service and a desktop clients. It took us almost one year to do this. The second reason is that when we began this new project I knew that the future of Snippets as a desktop application for Mac was Snippets which is the part of the new project. It was clear to me that it makes no sense to add features to the old app (at that time Snippets was already full featured stable and popular app) and it's better to release the new Snippets as early as possible. So, Snippets is in development, and we are working very actively as never before. Stay tuned.<br />
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Also to clarify possible naming issues I'd like you to call a first version of Snippets for Mac as "old Snippets" and the Snippets for Mac which is a part of the new project at <a href="http://snippets.me/?utm_source=blogsnippetsme" style="background-color: white;">Snippets.me</a> is just "Snippets" or "Snippets for Mac".Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-79371839804640020792012-06-20T08:03:00.000-07:002012-06-20T08:03:24.586-07:00Having both versions of Snippets installedI forgot to mention about installing new Snippets when you are still using the old one. While it's not yet recommended to replace old Snippets with the new version you should be able to install and run both of them.<br />
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To do this you have to rename the app bundle of the old version in Applications directory. Just open Applications directory in Finder, locate Snippets, press enter and type the new name. <span style="background-color: white;">I use "Snippets 1", you may choose whatever you want.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566052962601183635.post-91233111090050798232012-06-18T03:32:00.000-07:002012-06-20T13:50:14.095-07:00Welcome to the new Snippets<span style="font-family: inherit;">We've had a long and difficult year working on a new project. Now I think it's time to tell you about it and draw your attention to a new Snippets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">After two years on the market with </span><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/06/2010-ars-design-award-winners-for-mac-os-x-software/" style="font-family: inherit;">award-winning</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and simply best code snippets manager — </span><a href="http://www.snippetsapp.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">Snippets for Mac</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> — we've got a lot of feedback from you, and I'd like to </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">thank you</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> all for that. Now we understand the core value of such application much better. Taken them all into consideration we've built a new Snippets and we think you'll love it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Snippets is a set of tools and services designed for collecting, organizing, reusing and sharing of code snippets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taken your feedback and our experience with Snippets we've identified core value we have laid the basis of the new Snippets:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sync.</b> It doesn't require any explanation, it must have feature of the modern app that manages any kind of data.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Collaboration.</b> Snippets is used by teams a lot. So, it's essential to share any set of snippets either privately or publicly.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Integration.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> We should integrate with OS and Tools such as IDEs and editors so that Snippets can be used </span>much easier<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Cross platform.</b> Macs are great, but the reality is that mac-only teams are rare and to be useful for teams we must have Snippets for Windows too.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today we are announcing availability of Mac and Windows versions of Snippets that supports synchronization and sharing over the cloud. They doesn't have a lot of features. At this stage our intend was to implement cloud sync natively. </span>Until he have problems with sync w<span style="font-family: inherit;">e will be adding a new features quite fast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Desktop clients for Mac and Windows are free apps. Our services will be subscription based and will include free and premium accounts. We will be announcing prices and features set for the premium accounts a bit later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's still not ready for the public use however we are excited to announce that Snippets is opened for an invite-only registration. You can request your invitation <a href="http://snippets.me/request-invite" target="_blank">here</a> and we will send you on "first in first out" basis. Snippets for Mac and Windows can be downloaded <a href="http://snippets.me/download/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
<br />Vladimir Prudnikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09009168203558925121noreply@blogger.com7