# Gist: My New Devbook

DevFeed: [Gist: My New Devbook](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/gist-my-new-devbook-21178.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2012/12/gist-my-new-devbook/>)

Published: 2012-12-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Swing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/swing.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [eclipse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/eclipse.md>), [gist](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gist.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [knowledge-base](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/knowledge-base.md>), [web-applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-applications.md>)

## AI overview

The article recounts the evolution of Devbook, a personal knowledge base for software development and code snippets. It began as a Java Swing desktop client backed by Microsoft Access, was experimentally ported to Eclipse RCP, and later became a GWT web application hosted on Google App Engine. The project ultimately remained mainly experimental.

## Source excerpt

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