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At AnAppADay, Dana Hanna mentioned a search engine for developers named Krugle.

I followed the link, did a basic search and I must say it looks really good. You can refine your search based on language, on project and some other criteria. Impressive!

On the other and we have the recently launched Google Code.

Code.google.com is a site for external developers interested in Google-related development.

It's hard to compare the two sites. Both are search engines but Google's focus is narrowed down to their own software development. In the presentation of the search results Krugle scores again.
Of course this is only a first impression of these sites but for now Krugle is my first choice.

UPDATE:
Google not only searches it's own code base no it can actually search throug all public sources with their "other" search engine Google Code Search.

Dana Hanna aka the Software Jedi is writing one application a day for a period of one month. He writes;

"May the world benefit from the purposeful destruction of my personal life."

You can follow the results of his work at AnAppADay. Only four days left to complete his quest.

Console is a command line client with some interesting features like; tabs, shortcut keys, transparency and a lot more ...

For example four tabs with four different command prompts:

Hotkeys is a free productivity tool based on the concept of the Windows shortcut keys. Hotkeys takes this concept to the next level.

With hotkeys you can add new shortcuts and even change the default shortcuts. An onscreen keyboard and the possibility to use drag and drop to configure the shortcuts makes it a very user friendly application.

In the first version of the SimpleViewer Picasa template there were some "annoyances". Herman a friend and colleague complained that he couldn't generate a website. So I started digging, found the cause and found some other issues. The result was an improved version of the template.

Last week I received some questions from Dane Howard who is speaking at Flash Forward. His session is about how to combine Flash with XML to deliver animated templates. He asked for information on the Picasa export functionality.

For me it was a while ago I did something with the template internals. So after digging into the Picasa template stuff I could answerd his question. But most importantly I noticed an unfinished side project: the PostcardViewer template for Picasa.

PostcardViewer is another product of AirtightInteractive. Same principle but a different look.

Untill yesterday it was kind of hidden on the AirtightInteractive website. After re-discovering the template I decided to finish the project. There were two reasons for this: I don't like loose ends and I wanted to use the template for a portrait gallery.

Felix the author of the PostcardViewer even created the instructions on how to use the Postcard Picasa template.

Every time we come back from a vacation I want to get my photos online. Up until now it was a pain. Resizing the photos, setting up the navigation, reinventing the wheel because you didn't like the way it was set up the last time etc. etc.

This time it was different, after sorting the photos it took about 15 minutes to generate the website. What a relief!

I guess it's like a lot of things you just have to use the right tools:

• Picasa, for basic editing and organising your photos
• SimpleViewer Picasa Template, to generate the website

Picasa also includes some website templates but not as good looking as the SimpleViewer template.