An iPhone-friendly version of the CloudNine main site and this blog will be available by the end of the summer.
But also - and perhaps more awesome - will be a resized iPhone build of CodeBlocks, reordered for optimum screenspace.

The CloudBoard public beta has come to a close. I’d like to personally thank everyone who participated. We’ve squashed more bugs than at any other point than I can remember, and filled up our 250 testing slots very quickly. We’ll be re-launching a public beta with version 1.1 in the coming weeks.

HUGE news today:
CloudBoard has reached 1.0 beta, a milestone we’ve worked who knows how long now to meet. As usual, beta testers can download it from their client panels. But, for everyone else: We’re opening CloudBoard up for a limited time (3-7 days?) here on my personal site, with a few boards, for stress testing and a general idea of the direction the board is going. Follow the link at the top of my blog to visit it, create an account, and post a little. We’re open for another 250 tester applications, as well. We plan to go to CloudBoard 2.0 beta, then release pubic with 1.0 Final / 3.0 (naming undecided).

Codeblocks updated to (hopefully) fix some issues it’s been having.
I have no idea what the version number should be, so, whatever.
This is Codeblocks version 1.3.3.7 “Cheesecake”.

New:
- Added VBScript as an editable language.
- Author’s name, etc. are remembered via cookies, if using a Mozilla-based browser.
- Public spaces now display the last editor’s IP.

Fixes:
- Codeblocks now works in Konqueror and Safari.
- Codeblocks window is now scrollable in Epiphany, K-Meleon and other lightweight Mozilla-based browsers.
- Variables, functions, constructs and returns no longer use the same colour in C#.
- ColdFusion, ActionScript moved to ‘unsupported’ category; only accessibly by changing language to ‘cf’ or ‘as’ in URL. Lack of usage leaves no reason to maintain them.

Removed:
- “Live Preview” for HTML removed. Feature unused and caused too many page issues once activated.

Work In Progress:
- Preliminary work for Opera usability. Append “&opera_beta=1″ to your URL.
- Preliminary work for download tool (receiving chosen files in a .tar).
- Upload tool. (http://cloud9nine.com/codeblocks/edit.php?mode=upload)
- ”Codeblocks Remote”: CB packaged with installer and .sql for usage on other servers.

Sorry I haven’t been around much lately, to everyone who reads this. I know CodeBlocks needs some updating/bugfixing and I hope to get around to it sometime soon.

School and online business have kept me busy, and I’ve really just not had any time. So keep your eye on the blog - I have a couple neat things I’ll be announcing once they’re nearer to completion.

I was talking to Linus the other day, and we’ve both agreed that maintaining the kernal for 32-bit PowerPC seeems to be a mood point right now (how many *nix users do you know n G4s?) - we’ll be keeping PPC64 for G5 and/or PS3, but as of the 3.0 kernal (maybe 3.2), we’ll be dropping PPC32.

In other news, I’ve been in talks with Jelsoft about licensing their plugin system - I’d like users
of CloudBoard to be able to use vBulletin stuff in the same way; ie vB plugins. I think they’ll like
the idea, honestly, because even though clients are using a competing board, they can still earn
some cash from vB Blog, etc.

Anyway, that’s all for now - musics aer in teh wurkz.

Right, here you go, as promised, some new stuff. Five songs this time - two originals, and three covers; I decided to re-cover some of my more popular VG remixes in experimental styles.

ORIGINAL
Destination Emptiness - A trance, futuristic song I was inspired to write while playing Locomotion.
Destination Epic - Not sure about this one. I’ve been playing Audiosurf, and wanted to make something epic.

RE-COVERS
Ice Cap from Sonic
Overworld from Zelda
Flying Battery from Sonic

You’ll find them all at http://cloud9nine.com/blogrel. Enjoy, and please do not distribute, simply link people here instead. I need the traffic!

Two things to say here, basically. First, I’ve stopped updating the old music site. From now on, I’ll just be announcing new albums on the blog, so I’ll have a “Releases” category at some point. Secondly, while I’m taking a break from serious composing, I’ll be working on stuff on the side. Because of the slow pace of this and my wanting a break, I’ll be posting songs one by one, making them publicly available, with a zip released every ten or so. Eventually, I’ll get back into serious for-profit, album creation. But for now - this is it.

I’m opening a contest to end March 1st.
Put together the best single-file original code you can, whether it be for business, comedy, or whatever you feel like. Just save it with a title name of “Contest Myname”. At the end, the five entries with the most pageviews will be thrown in a vote, and the winner will receive a year’s free hosting - full developer addons included - at CloudNine.