Author Archives: Paul Dixon

Geograph Guppy

Geograph is taking a bit a hammering at the moment, which is frustrating for all those trying to submit new photos. A few months back I started working on a desktop application codenamed Guppy (“Geograph Uploader”) which would let you queue up your submissions quickly, which the application would then upload for you while you did other things.

Looks like it’s time I completed it!

I’m writing the software in C++ using the wxWidgets GUI framework. This should (hopefully) mean I can produce a Mac version fairly easily. So far so good – I’ve not used a single Win32 API, which bodes well.

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!