MùPùF.org

Early this month I haven't been very productive in the open source world, mostly because of the university projects and the exams that followed. Now it's over I've decided to take the time to fix that, and it's a pleasure to be finally able to get back to FOSS development, and my electronics hobby ;)

So today I'm proud to announce the fruit of my efforts, and a new project :)

Lately I have been trying to use Loggerhead, a simple Bazaar repository viewer which is developed at Launchpad. Bazaar itself is the source code manager behind all the Launchpad projects.

So I needed to serve Loggerhead behind the Cherokee server; but unfortunately, it is not very friendly to non-Apache servers. It runs primarily in WSGI mode (interpreter embedded into the web server). One of Cherokee's principles is to be lightweight, and therefore it does not support WSGI. So the only option left is to run it standalone and proxy it through Cherokee, which is slow and overall not very good.

Today I tried to get the support I needed myself, and I have found a solution.

This article describes how to set up a fully chrooted Cherokee server with a Django web site.

This is certainly not an obvious task and I think others may find it useful, so here's how to do it.

As you probably know already, Mono is Novell's attempt to bring Microsoft's C# language to Linux, which has received strong opposition from part of the community. While I am not opposed to Mono at all, there's some points I would like to discuss about.

This is just a post to say "hello" and introduce my blog to the FOSS community. I'm a CS student who likes to develop for open-source projects, and I would like to share my work with the community.

So I am co-developing this website, a project that started in June 2009 with MùPùF, a real-life friend with common interests. The real purpose of creating a complete site is to add interest into 'web-development' and 'just blogging', which I both found boring :p.

I'll take some time occasionnally to discuss various tech stuff, but not too seriously :)

As you can see the site is still a bit empty to date, but expect things to change soon. Most work is going into Django coding. As you can see we also have package repositories on the site; I have developed a 'packages' application, which I'm quite proud of ;)

I'm thinking about releasing it shortly.

Stay tuned!