| Hacking Update |
[Aug. 2nd, 2007|03:04 pm] |
MogileFS, Brackup, DJabberd, and Gearman have all been getting more popular lately. And memcached, of course, but I'm used to that.
memcached: hackathon at Facebook yielded great spec for new binary protocol. everybody's wanted it forever, but getting all the right players in the same room got things decided on quite nicely.
Brackup: great contributions from Alessandro Ranellucci recently (chunk garbage collection, age-based pruning, etc...) couple new releases in recent days. new mailing list.
DJabberd: bunch of people have realized that DJabberd was designed to be extensible and are now writing plugins. yay!
Gearman: Ruby and Python support, and updated website. and now DBD::Gofer has a Gearman transport. very cool!
TheSchwartz: working on a standalone server (with RPC being the Gearman protocol), so it can be used by Python and Ruby folk with a minimal TheSchwartz wrapper in Python/Ruby around the Python/Ruby gearman libraries.
And a bunch more work (code, presentations, meetings) about work on portable social networks. Looks like it's coming together, from a lot of different angles/parties. Should be an interesting upcoming year. |
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| Fun with JavaScript |
[Sep. 29th, 2005|11:50 pm] |
Check out my javascript wizardry:
http://danga.com/demo/tags.html
Watch it learn which new/recent tags you use, and prioritize those more.
Only tested in Firefox. Should work everywhere else with minimal work, if it doesn't already.
And I'm sure this has been done a dozen times before, and better (Google Suggest), but I'm still kinda tickled that I can write JavaScript and actually have it work somewhat reliably nowadays. |
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| Hacking update |
[Jul. 10th, 2005|09:16 am] |
After my nap(s) yesterday, I headed over to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) btrott's for Zante's and hacking. Lots of commits both before and after midnight.
We double-teamed Gearman, documenting it, rearranging it, and writing a mostly comprehensive test suite for the combination of client, worker, and server. Test suites that vary with timing are fun. And ones that involve forking off a bunch of processes, making them all talk, killing some at the right times, etc.
So overall, very productive.
It's just kinda sad that I have to hack on the weekend to really get in the groove and have a couple straight hours to focus without interruptions. |
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