As I promised, BD-incollo 0.1 is finished and the source code is available in the project page under the GPL 3 license.
Every MUST requirement has been done and just two MAY requirements could not be developed in just 6 days. But They will surely be in the next releases.
Sourcecode is well commented using xP standards and there are few comments where necessary, but is should be clear. If not, drop me a mail.
I will write a map that describes the source code tree tomorrow!
The conclusions of this experiment are that Django is really a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines! I spent more time playing with templates and CSS than with the whole python coding! It's a valid alternative to Ruby on Rails, and built on a programming language I really like.
Go and grab the code!

Quite everything is ready!
There is a feature that I have to finish, the removal of a Paste after 30 days of inactivity.
There are a couple of bugs to be solved now, but I believe I will fix them with the 0.2 release.
I think I will be ready to launch the service tomorrow at 00:00 GMT + 1.
Sourcecode will also be released tomorrow

Time for a screenshot! This is the page which handles new pastes:

BD-incollo: page for new pastes

• I implemented a hash function (hexadecimal number as output) to be used to access pastes, instead of using their ids
• I played with templates to have all the functionalities accessed in very small mouse movements

Next, the requirements regarding automatic cleanup of the pastes!

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)

Just released the code for the 0.9 version. Changes from the experiments of 0.8 are listed on the project page, but the most important ones are that the theme is now fully compatible with

• Internet Explorer 7 and 8
• Mozilla Firefox 2
• Mozilla Firefox 3
• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari

And there are lots of visual improvements, too. Go to see them on the project page, and grab the code, too!
Obviously, coding for the 1.0 release has just started, and you will see the changes in the theme applied on my blog.

Introduction

This guide will help you to install OpenGEU and every other Ubuntu based linux distribution on your Macbook (either "normal" or pro). Even Ubuntu will work with this how-to.
The tutorial is aimed on how to succesfully partition the hard disk and to correctly boot the distribution. For a better post-install configuration I suggest you to follow the Ubuntu Wiki.

This tutorial is also posted on the OpenGEU Wiki
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