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.

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.

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?