Safari vs. Codefetch on Amazon's Best Sellers
Can you rely on O'reilly's paid Safari service for the latest code from programming books? Apparently not. I knew Safari was lacking independent publishers like Pragmatic Programmers, but when I did this experiment I was surprised they don't even offer their own bestsellers. Strange. Anti-cannibalism perhaps?
We took Amazon's computer bestseller list for February 21, 2006, eliminated non-programming books, and looked at whether the books are code-searchable on Safari or Codefetch:
| Book | Code on Safari? | Code on Codefetch? |
| DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model | no | yes |
| Head First Design Patterns | no | yes |
| Ajax in Action | no | yes |
| Professional ASP.NET 2.0 | no | no |
| Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide | no | yes |
| SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide | no | no |
| Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition | no | yes |
| Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML | no | no |
| Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software | no | yes |
| CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions | no | yes |
posted by Greg @ 4:49 PM
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3 Comments:
Codefetch is still lacking, you cant search for ASP, ASP.NET, VB, VB.NET code -- so whats the difference?
But already can get code from CodeFetch and run it at CodeIDE (http://CodeIDE.com) :)
you have some issues with your highlighting, search for XML, C#, many times the highlight is way off.. fix your bugs before criticizing other products
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