David Raynes

Yippie! My patch to the rails routing routines was accepted. It adds a feature similar to one that I have made extensive use of at work in Java servlets.

Recently, I have finally found some time to play around with some new geeky toys. Specifically, I brought SQLite up at work, which brought me to playing with it at home, which lead into finally starting to futz around with a Ruby on Rails application to see how it works. I have to say, I am more astonished with each day that I work with Rails. I'm always stumbling across something new each time I sit down and play with it some more.

Rails then lead me into an interesting new web server: lighttpd. I am so impressed with that, that I am planning on trying to migrate off Apache entirely and onto lighttpd instead (a problem with the most recent Apache, or at least the Debian apache2-mpm-prefork package, contributed to that as well somewhat). The only problem that I have with lighttpd currently is that it lacks something like mod-security, so I am writing my own plugin for lighttpd. It is currently working (just barely), and when I finally get more completely implemented (at the moment, it is only a blacklist for POST data), tested thorougly, and cleaned up, I will go ahead and release it to the public.

It is done. I have setup a subversion repository for the Plugin Manager.

I will not be posting the URL to the general public, as it is just my server machine sitting on my cable connection, but if you wish to keep up with the bleeding edge of Plugin Manager development, get in touch with me and I will send you the address.

Next: my plugins repository.

Before I go and do anything drastic, I thought I would pose this question to the community at large: would anybody out there be interested in gaining read-only access to my plugin source code repository (including the Plugin Manager)?

Right now, I am just using CVS on my personal machine, but I have been thinking about setting up Subversion (CVS's successor) on my server machine.

So, does anybody out there want access?