Hello, I am pleased to announce "hpaste", the Haskell Paste-bin. Over the course of this week many of the active #haskell members and I have been developing this application to provide #haskell with a reliable paste bot whose features are tuned to the needs of the channel. Everyone is invited to see hpaste for themselves at http://hpaste.ath.cx:8000 hpaste.org has been registered, and in a few days time will be the permanent home of hpaste. An example of how hpaste was recently used to teach can be seen at http://hpaste.ath.cx:8000/43 A paste-bin is a place for IRC users to paste and annotate code snippets in a stable environment. This keep users from flooding the channel and saves users from having to scroll back constantly to review a paste. hpaste uses haskell syntax coloring (provided by hscolour) and is able to generate a color-coded diff of two pastes to give users an additional tool to share and teach. This project was a wonderful way for me to learn both the old and new HAppS APIs which have both proven to be quite powerful. In addition to providing a web-interface, hpaste is able to announce new pastes to the IRC channel via a bot based on Don Stewart's IRC bot tutorial. darcs has been instrumental in this colaborative effort, and the hpaste source is available with: darcs get --partial http://www.scannedinavian.com/~eric/hpaste Feedback is both encouraged and welcomed! -- Eric Mertens emertens@gmail.com