Category Archives: Software Development

CleanEx – a blast from the past

I had an email recently enquiring about a freeware Windows application I wrote nine years ago called CleanEx. I was amazed people still use it, even more amazed it still works. Nine years is a long time!

CleanEx is a little shell extension to clean a directory of temporary files, originally conceived as a way to get rid of C++ compiler intermediate files. Here’s a rolling demo of it in action

CleanEx

CleanEx can be customised to add your own file groups too. I must have the sources around here somewhere, I’ll open it up if anyone is interested.

Download cleanex.zip (181Kb)

Pastebin 0.50 released – with expiry control

Pastebin was conceived as a way to post code into an IRC or IM conversation, so the post itself was thought to be quite ephemeral. Therefore, the database didn’t retain posts for very long. However, this has surprised some users, who expected a little more permanence.

I’ve rectified this in v0.50. There are three options to suit various users

  • expiry in a day – great for IRC or IM, where the post will be read pretty much immediately and then fall out of use
  • expire in a month – great for exploring code ideas or problems via email
  • never expire – the post lives forever. This is really for retaining code snippets you want to share with others.

I’m going to add more features that will make pastebin more useful for long term storage of code snippets, watch this space!

Download GPL’d source code, or just play with it at pastebin.com