I believe that there are many people out there that experiment with processing but don’t want to bother with domains or hosting. Well, my host has plenty of storage and monthly bandwitdh, far more than I’ll ever need. At this time there’s about 30Gb waiting to be filled (I’m currently using 60Mb) and I have about 300Gb bandwidth per month to spare.

So, if you got Processing sketches to share but no space to do it, feel free to send them over. Just a few pointers:

1. Code should be shared under a Creative Commons license, similar to the one at the bottom of this page. I’ll waste no space on private code.
2. Although it’s ultimately up to me to decide what goes online, I will not judge on esthetic or other purely personal grounds. The only criteria to refuse a piece are offensive content, malicious intent or blatant commercial abuse.
3. Sketches should be submitted by email (check contact) as a zipped archive of the applet folder generated by Processing.
4. I’ll host everything in a separate domain “guest.wblut.com” as a blog similar to mine. Each submitted piece will be a blog entry with link, screenshot, author, tags and description. Anything you want to go here, especially description and screenshot, you can put in the email. Keep the screenshot 450px wide or less (I don’t feel like messing with WordPress templates ). There are nicer alternatives than a simple blog, but it’s easier to keep content and comments organised.
5. I will not host any other files. There’s enough other options out there.

In return, I’ll do my best to keep everything nice, tidy and punctual. Just to be clear, I’m not out for money, my pages, including the guest blog, are advertisement free and will always remain that way .

Update : synchronicity… There’s another solution out there since the 22nd of march: http://www.openprocessing.org/. Cool, must be an idea whose time is right. Thanks to Andreas for pointing this out.

Well, W:Blut is scheduled for a major update. Actually, until yesterday I didn’t even feel like keeping the domain or my hosting account. But then while browsing around I read this blog entry by Robert Hodgin. Completely invigorated I’m up for another round of stream of consciousness programming.

So, why did I got bored with my amateur dabblings. In short, I lost focus. Lately, I’ve been working on the more technical side of Java applets… and grew bored of it. Again and again, I bumped into problems with applets crashing on page reloads or fast browsing between applets. It seemed like everything I wanted to try involved tedious bug-related research and work-arounds.

No more! I’m leaving the well-structured domain of good-practice programming and return to the wild plains of seat-of-the-pants, chaotic coding. To keep focus on the actual creative work, I’m also handing over the site into the ubiquitous but capable hands of WordPress.

So, if you would excuse me, I have some old code to revisit.

Frederik