There was a FedEx truck going through the neighborhood and it ripped the cable internet line right off the telephone pole by my house! Incidentally, the power got knocked out for about an hour. But the real bummer (especially for a home web server admin like myself) is that the internet line took about 8 hours to get back online again! So all my websites were sidelined and crying... Now everything's happy again and running like a dream!

Here's the article as it made it into the Telegraph-Forum, our local newspaper: http://litlurl.net/30d8.

Here's what I'm working on to improve the codebin:

Here's my post from a year ago:

3. Make a search feature. (difficult)
--Would be able to search by topic, type of code, poster...
Still working on this one... (Yes, I know it won't be THAT difficult)

5. Stop bots from rating the scripts. (easy - I think!)
-- Search engines go to every link they find, and thus rate one script 8 times, leaving an average of 4.5. They do that to this blog too. Arrrggghhh!
DONE. It was simple

Other updates:
1. A favicon.ico!!! Like it?
2. Implemented GeSHi, a syntax highlighter
3. Support for many more types of code
4. Cool web buttons on the left column

Make your own buttons --> http://pksml.net/antipixel_ajax

The Code-Bin now has a new URL!

http://code-bin.homedns.org

I thought the old URL was a little long.

Both the old and new URLs are completely functional.

Thanks to those who have posted so far!

Here's what I'm working on to improve the codebin:

1. Get a working update script. (easy) *** DONE 2/09 ***
--If you post an entry with a password, you can enter the password to revise your posting.

2. Make an email script. (easy) *** DONE - 2/14 ***
--If you post an entry with a password and an email address, you can have the password emailed to you, should you forget it.

3. Make a search feature. (difficult)
--Would be able to search by topic, type of code, poster...

4. Make links to types different types of code. (easy)
--Make a script that will get the latest posts from a certain type of code.

5. Stop bots from rating the scripts. (easy - I think!)
-- Search engines go to every link they find, and thus rate one script 8 times, leaving an average of 4.5. They do that to this blog too. Arrrggghhh!

Stay tuned for updates!

I have started a new project on February 1st called The Code-Bin.

It aims to be like http://pastebin.com but faster and cleaner. My version is also ad-free!

The current URL is http://stephen.calvarybucyrus.org/codebin/. Please visit and add your code!

Any comments, suggestions, constructive criticism? Please leave me a comment here at my blog.

Also, late-breaking information will be posted here first at my blog - http://stephen.calvarybucyrus.org/blog/.