Monthly Archives: April 2006

cl1p.net – a pastebin for files

cl1p.net is a sort of pastebin for files. Just pick a url, like cl1p.net/hereismyfile and upload up to 2M of data.

I’d be uncomfortable with adding uploads to pastebin, seems there would be too much scope for abuse and if it was popular I doubt the Google ads would pay for the bandwidth used.

Still, as I’m going to make it possible for posts to be a little more permanent, it would be nice to offer customised url paths as well as custom domains, so your code snippet can go to http://mydomain.pastebin.com/advanced_sort_routine for example.

Finally, for those eager for the source – it’s coming along nicely, be patient just a little longer!

Web designer position in Huddersfield anyone?

A long shot, but my 8-month-pregnant friend Clare Quartermaine runs QT Creative, web design and marketing company in Huddersfield, and one of her HTML/Flash designers is leaving in 4 weeks.

If you read this, and know someone in the Huddersfield area with HTML, CSS, Flash skills, and maybe a smattering of basic PHP and Javascript, starting salary around the £18K+ mark depending on experience, then do get in touch (info at qtdm.co.uk)

MogileFS+MAID and lwqueue

A quick round up of recent blog posts of interest to me…

  • Using MogileFS and MAID is a short post about an interesting idea – using MogileFS as a replication layer on top of a redundant MAID units.
  • Next up, lwqueue, “a lightweight, language agnostic TCP based message queue system with Perl, Ruby, and Python client libraries”. Geograph uses a message queue but doesn’t quite need the performance this offers, but it looks good for situations where you want high asynchronous message traffic between software systems on different hosts