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It took me about one year to find some time to enhance my project BD-incollo. I worked hard for 5 days and to add new features and fight the (huge) amount of spam that was wasting my database space. Now I’m very proud to announce bd-incollo 0.9, a free, light, speedy, anonymous Pastebin clone written in Python Django. This version introduces a lot of new features, including the possibility to make diffs between pastes, and fights spam using Akismet. Read more about the features on the project page and on the new News section on the website that makes use of BD-incollo, incollo.com .

BD-incollo 0.9 is free software as always, under the Gnu Affero General Public License 3.

Currently, you can:

• Copy, Paste and store a text / source code snippet to the system
• NEW! Give other people the possibility to discover your Paste (make a Paste either public or private)
• Decide to colorize the syntax of the Paste
• Share it using its URL
• NEW! Enhance Pastes! Create a Paste starting from an old one
• NEW! View differences! Makes use of the powerful diff-match-patch by Neil Fraser to see differences between two Pastes
• NEW! Antispam protection using Akismet and akismet.py by Michael Foord
• Download it as plain text
• View it as plain text
• Search something interesting through other pastes!
• Report abuses to site admins

It also uses a very smart hash system that automatically re-computes a hash key in case of collision.

Here is an example of Paste: http://incollo.com/f341e6a4b
Here is an example of enhancement of the Paste: http://incollo.com/ba22929ac
Here is a full-screen diff of the Pastes: http://incollo.com/compare/f341e6a4b/ba22929ac

Play with them! Use incollo.com, spread it!

Road to 1.0

1.0 development will start after my next examination session (on September) and will surely include:

• Some asynchronous improvements
• The possibility to teach Akismet about Spam and Ham in Pastes (when admin user is logged in)
• More cleaner code
• The possibility to associate a user to its Pastes via a Cookie (always anonymous) and let him delete them
• Comments to snippets?
• What else? Contact me if you’ve got ideas!

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For job purposes I had to learn a lot of JavaScript, including AJAX related stuffs. Like every lazy (but intelligent) developer, I looked around for frameworks that could help me doing my work. I knew that prototype existed, but I never looked at it because of lack of interest. Well it’s great, it’s really great! Nowadays everybody should use frameworks, as their abstraction permits a rapid development without worrying about things like platform compatibility, in our case browsers. Prototype also has a very nice and clean syntax that overtakes functions not compatible with every browser.

In this post I’m going to report a very nice function I implemented for limiting Form input fields, like textarea and input of type text. You have to call it via onkeyup and onkeydown events. The function accepts 3 parameters: field, limit and counterDesired.
The first is the field object, you should use the keyword this for a value.
The second parameter is a limit value, the number of characters that the field should contain at maximum.
The third parameter is optional, false as default. It permits to add a visual counter after the field, like the one you see on YouTube, for example. You can either tell to the function to add the counter for you (put inside a <span> block) or to put it inside another block you’ve already defined. In the second case, the block must have an id of the form ‘fieldID_counter’

This is the compact version, see below for some examples and the expanded, explained version:

Read more…

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The general structure of the program is ready and works. I’m very happy with it, I’m currently playing with templates to have a very accessible, clean layout with few page scrolling needing. At the moment is is possible to:

• Paste a code
• Search a Paste
• View a colored Paste (code syntax)
• View a Paste without syntax highlighting
• Download a Paste as plain text
• View all pastes (although I will allow to see the last 20-30 pastes)

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BD-incollo is a collaborative debugging tool like pastebin but written using Django.
Why did I write another pastebin clone?
Pastebin is (sometimes) slow, and I’m not (yet) interested to categorize pastes or to associate them to a user. Pastebin is free and the code is available, but is a single php file, and not a Django project!
There are already other services there, even written using Django, but no one is free software. BD-incollo IS free software. Well, BD-incollo has been written after those Django pastebin clones, so i could learn from their mistakes and write a better one! Everybody is welcome to grab the code and modify it, or even to submit suggestions!
Report feedbacks, feature requests and bugs on the issue tracker.

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Features

• Copy, Paste and store a text / source code to the system
• NEW! Give other people the possibility to discover your Paste (make a Paste either public or private)
• Decide to colorize the syntax of the Paste
• Share it using its URL
• NEW! Enhance Pastes! Create a Paste starting from an old one
• NEW! View differences! Makes use of the powerful diff-match-patch by Neil Fraser to see differences between two Pastes
• NEW! Antispam protection using Akismet and akismet.py by Michael Foord
• Download it as plain text
• View it as plain text
• Search something interesting through other pastes!
• Report abuses to site admins

Interesting Stuffs

• Fast, really fast!
• It works well and has nice urls, thanks to Django
• A very clean interface, a minimalist design that gives space to the code (as it should always be)
• Compatible with every browser (tested with Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Mozilla Firefox 3, Apple Safari, Google Chrome)
• Resolution friendly! Liquid design that adapts to every monitor resolution (tests from 1024×768)
• Developer friendly! Every functionality of BD-incollo can be done with max 2 mouse clicks and without a mouse scroll!
• Tested with lots of pastes, quite every source code should be perfectly viewed (this does not happen with every pastebin clones I’ve tried)
• Uses Pygments for code highlighting

Download

• 2009-07-26 – version 0.9.
• 2008-09-30 – version 0.1.
• 2008-09-24
  • Software Requirements
  • Use Case Diagram
  • Class Diagram

License

BD-incollo is released under The Gnu Affero GPL version 3! This is different from the license of the contents of the blog

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see < http ://www.gnu.org/licenses/ >.

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