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Gaging interest/comments for an Apple 2 Snippets Library
- Subject: Gaging interest/comments for an Apple 2 Snippets Library
- From: Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 19:01:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi All,
Based upon an idea that Matt Jenkins expressed recently that it would
be cool to have an Apple II code snippets library online, I did some
investigation, found a couple of pre-rolled PHP scripts, and hacked
together the following site:
http://polymorph.byethost17.com/
The current location of the site is setup under a free web hosting
account. This was created as a proof-of-concept install and Byethost
has loads of features for PHP and databases (especially for a free web
hosting provider). This may or may not change in the near future, but
I will definitely create a better hostname if it stays at Byethost.
Anyway, I digress...
Logged in users can create new snippets and categories, but I've
hacked all of the scripts to remove any delete functionality (I don't
want any one person ruining it for everyone else either accidentally
or intentionally). The new user registration stuff should all be
working, and I intend to keep this in place to prevent spam bots from
wrecking things. Currently, the registration confirmation emails take
quite a while to arrive (in the order of about 30 minutes), but this
is probably a limitation of using a free web host.
I have setup two libraries - one for 8 bit Apple ]['s (Computing Pi),
and one for the 16 bit IIgs (Loading SHR Images).
I'd like for the code viewers syntax highlighting to be upgraded to
have better support for Apple II languages - I've added some stuff in,
but I believe there may be scripts already out there that will do a
better job. They will need to be integrated at some point if they
prove to provide the functionality I'm looking for.
I would like some feedback on the site (both positive & negative),
whether you think such a site will be useful, and if you can think of
ways of improving things. I thought the idea was a good one, and I'm
hoping other people do too!
I've only added 1 snippet for 8 bit Apples, and 1 snippet for 16 bit
Apples at present. So feel free to add more! :-)
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Mike