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.

After the latest update to Garry’s Mod, the dedicated server binaries for Linux and Windows are pretty much broken beyond repair. They use literally 30-40% CPU with no objects spawned and no players connected, and in order to spawn content from CSS and Orange Box require a literal 4GB of diskspace per server - HLDS doesn’t seem to work with symlinks, so we can’t save any space that way.

So, unfortunately, we’re no longer going to offer Gmod servers. CSS, TF2, and other Source-based games will still be offered.

I had a great idea for a way to extend this site and make it useful.
I’m announcing the “Codeblocks” feature today, to be availible as early as next week.

Here’s how it works:
By visiting the “Codeblocks” section of this site, you can type or copy/paste code in a variety of languages into an online, syntax-highlighting editor, and save it to a file on the server. (No code will be executable on the server, so don’t even bother trying to exploit.) Anyone else can then load your file, view it, and edit it. (You’ll need a password to save edits, so only people you give that password to can change your original file.)

What do you think? Would you use a feature like this?

As you can see, the site has been replaced by this fancy new WordPress blog.

I’ve decided to take a break from music for a while; there’s a lot going on at C9 right now and I’m devoting all my energy to getting some new services online (Game server hosting, for instance) as well as developing many of our long-overdue projects - CloudBoard, for instance.

I’m not quitting permanently. I’ll probably pick music back up again, sometime in the future. But for now, I’m taking a break - don’t expect to see anything before 2009.

Welcome to the blog. I’m aware that most people won’t read or care about this; it’s as much a record for me as it is a look into my life for everyone else. I don’t really have much to say at the moment, I’m still configuring this fresh install. I’ll post later.