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Very cool! You've easily written the best UI for this kind of thing I've yet seen (though a language syntax picker would be nice).

Quick question though, why redis vs something disk based? Are you worried that if this sees a lot of usage you'll hit memory limits? Seems like a great application for a disk based KV, or just plain SQL.

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Hey - Thanks for the comment.

You can set the language by just changing the extension in the URL, if it guesses wrong.

the open source project also has an optional disk store you can use in place of redis (http://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-server), but my hosted version uses the redis store.

Thanks again!

For what it's worth, changing the extension doesn't seem to work for me. A simple C program (http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML) gets detected as TeX. Trying to change the http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML.tex to http://hastebin.com/36QWBlYlML.c just redirects me back to the .tex URL.

Also, while I am entering a file, the edit box is only two lines long, and I can't see the handle to resize it. This is Safari 5.1.1 on Snow Leopard.

Looks nice!

Heya - just didn't have the .c extension in the mapping. Will add it in tonight and get it out. Thanks!

While you're at it, changing the extension seems to break the back button in Chrome and Safari on OSX.

I haven't tried reproducing this, but it sounds like he's setting redirects based on GETs. A bad idea all-around, and not only for breaking the back button in this case.

vvv wahnfrieden

will be fixed tonight

Also, clicking on the .c link breaks the back button, because it redirects to the .tex link before I can click back again.

this syntax changing by changing the extension is really clever, is it in the haste-server codebase?

yep: http://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-server

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