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For the last decade and more, my fascination with taking things apart and putting them back together again has manifested itself in my habitual making, using and working with Internet stuff.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1 | Richard Jones, Esq.

last.fm co-founder experimenting with scaling Comet way beyond the C10K mark, with Erlang back-end and some kernel tuning. Via Nilesh.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Yaws

“Yet Another Web server”, this time written in the parallel/concurrency fans’ wünderkind, Erlang.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Comet Daily » Blog Archive » Introducing HTTP Channels

“Comet solution for RESTful real time data synchronization architecture”. Change notification, syncing, etc.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Grails - “The search is over.”

Java-based web app framework using Groovy script engine. Nice fluent-looking ORM layer. Wait … servlet. WAR. Ant. Gaah. Worth a look though.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Artdaily.org - The First Art Newspaper on the Net

Looks like a pretty decent art site that’s been around since ’96 and I’d never come across it before.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Lift Web Framework

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Google Web Toolkit

Web app toolkit - write Ajax apps in Java, have client-side code rendered to HTML/Javascript

Friday, November 3, 2006

Virtual Exim

MA - A web-based administration-interface for the exim-Mailserver

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Googleworld

Googleworld
Last night, I dreamt that Google had superimposed a false world on top of the real one, using a mixture of some sort of gas and a strange strain of idea-glue. They'd started on this project during the '80s and things had just got gradually more and more caught up in it since then, which was why the music was so bad. However, their insidious plan had started to unravel, as some people had started to notice; when I clocked what was going on, I thought that I and the others who knew would have to do something about it. This we did; our efforts seemed to consist mainly of going out and telling the rest of the people what was going on. There were some quite good special effects, including some explosions caused by the Google crew to stop me and my companions from spreading the truth, and then some interesting reality-melting sequences when we overcame their machinations and started to peel back the G-world, with all its speedboats and palm trees, revealing the real world underneath it - which was exactly the same, but not full of sublimated gas and rotten music, and therefore better. Less glue flying around too. It was a pretty fine dream.