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Dialog and Paste Ninja

I'd like to share with everyone two projects that I've been working on in what little spare time I've had lately-- Dialog and Paste Ninja.

Dialog
Dialog is a lightweight JavaScript-based dialog window. Why does the world need another dialog widget, you ask? It probably doesn't, but I couldn't find a freely available one that was as flexible as I wanted so I wrote my own. Flexibility and portability were key design features, so Dialog is written completely in JavaScript and CSS, and its appearance is fully CSS driven.

Dialog supports multiple dialog types by default, such as confirmation, information, warning, and error, and can further be customized with a custom dialog type. It can even display modal dialogs and block input to the page until the prompt is dismissed!

You can learn more about it and get the code at its project page, http://www.saltcitytech.com/projects/dialog from my JavaScript Experiments repository at GitHub.



Paste Ninja
Paste Ninja is a pastebin application that lets you to share code snippets with others. Instead of flooding an IRC channel or your Instant Messenger conversations with lines of source code, you can paste it online for public viewing.

The world probably doesn't need another pastebin app, either, but there are several features in store that other pastebins don't have. The goal is to revolutionize how people use pastebins and make internet debugging a truly collaborative experience.

The back-end of Paste Ninja is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database to store pastes, comments, and the application's configuration information. The front-end is written in JavaScript.

I haven't decided yet if I'm going to opensource the code for Paste Ninja-- or under which license it would be released under if I did so-- but I'm not adverse to the idea if there is enough demand. Regardless, it's free to use, so be the "master of your pastebin" and give Paste Ninja a try at http://www.pasteninja.com.

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  1. Ralph FrostJanuary 29, 2011 at 9:32 PM

    Hi,
    Your posts are informative and clearly written. Thanks.

    Have you decided to not have your javascript Dialog accessible? The link in your postdoesn't seem to work... for me... via a browser. But I could have a UTS error in progress.

    Keep up the good work.

    Ralph Frost
    Brookston IN
    www.refrost.com

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  2. Timothy BoronczykJune 5, 2011 at 12:43 AM

    Sorry, addresses change and projects come and go over time. I've made the Dialog class available now in one of my GitHub repositories. If you're interested in it, you can check it out there.

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