tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77402075215461417992011-11-27T16:46:43.610-08:00Various interesting software projects that came to my attention.Ekarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027144301954337688noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740207521546141799.post-17542052721188549202008-07-18T06:19:00.000-07:002008-07-18T06:29:01.168-07:00

Sometimes it gets handy to have a very minimalistic web server, for sharing your favourite music with a friend or when testing webdesign layouts with various browsers on different machines.It's very easy to write one in Python... Anyway, it's already written, you just launch it.import sysimport BaseHTTPServerimport SimpleHTTPServerlisten = ":8080"if len(sys.argv) > 1: listen = sys.argv[1] +

Ekarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027144301954337688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740207521546141799.post-6339994448169755562008-02-05T10:19:00.000-08:002008-02-05T10:59:02.773-08:00

Mikio made a networking layer for Tokyo Cabinet, the fastest lightweight database engine, I've mentioned before.Tokyo Tyrant is a packeage of network interfaces to the DBM called Tokyo Cabinet. Though the DBM has high performance, you might bother in case that multiple processes share the same database, or remote processes access the database. Thus, Tokyo Tyrant is provided for high concurrency

Ekarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027144301954337688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740207521546141799.post-69656751026252672902008-02-04T08:58:00.000-08:002008-02-05T10:58:27.366-08:00

I was looking for a lightweight, simple HTTP server to serve up static files form the current directory, for testing my ongoing web-development projects. It was pretty trivial to write one in Python, using SimpleHTTPServer class.However when I had to test some PHP code, things got a little complicated. It was still quite easy to rewrite that small Python server with CGIHTTPServer to run a simple

Ekarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027144301954337688noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740207521546141799.post-62354594276113853822008-02-02T09:54:00.000-08:002008-02-02T10:26:28.571-08:00

Mikio Hirabayashi is known for QDBM embedded database library and Hyper Estrailer, an open-source search engine. He has a brand new project, called Tokyo Cabinet. It has several advantages over QDBM.It produces smaller database files, processes them faster, has a more simple API, multi-threaded support, more robustness, no database corruption, 64-bit support. It still restricts a single process

Ekarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05027144301954337688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740207521546141799.post-82186950263964537742008-02-01T08:29:00.000-08:002008-02-05T10:56:55.340-08:00

DRBD is a quite an interesting software for Linux. (It's now included in the "vanilla" kernel.) DRBD takes one of your block devices, and mirrors it to a remote computer's block device. It's something like a basic clustering on block level but with only two nodes.You can create a journaling filesystem on top of a DRBD device, for example. When your main node dies, the secondary node can mount up

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