Archive for May, 2008

Request-response chain

By farcaller May 28th, 2008

How is the request processed? The server is capable of spawning several “worker threads” that are waiting for incoming requests. As soon as FastCGI pipe drops one more request it’s being fed into first free thread or moved to the queue. Thread itself is a black box having Request* on input and Response* on output. [...]

Request object

By farcaller May 27th, 2008

Here’s how request object looks like at the moment. You can query the current request by a static current() method. You can resolve GET or POST entries or query request header value directly. There’s no way to process requests with several values with single key (is it really useful?) and no file uploads handling.
I’m still [...]

Tags vs. Categories

By farcaller May 27th, 2008

One more thing I’ve been thinking about are Tags and Categories. What is the real difference between these two concepts? Let me explain my own point of view on this issue.
Category is tree-like structure. I do have category “Ideas” here. I could create two subcategories - “Look&Feel” and “Client handling”. Then I would post everything [...]

XML-RPC and other remote stuff

By farcaller May 27th, 2008

Toying with remote blog editing/posting from OSX. This is one of the core features I want to implement in my upcoming Objective-C blog.
I’m not really surprised to see such a big number of different RPC protocols, however it’s nice to see there are some standard ones, like Metaweblog API.
Going web is not the way I [...]

Common Gateway Interface

By farcaller May 27th, 2008

Yesterday I’ve been reading through CGI specs to figure how it works. CGI is the most simple way to test FOW core parts - you just make a standalone binary and feed it with “webserver-like” data. With some luck you can even make unit testing work.

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Being jealous

By farcaller May 27th, 2008

WordPress looks pretty nice from inside. Okay, okay, I’ve never even thought about such features, still that doesn’t make them less useful
I don’t need most of that in my blog but why don’t make it (my blog app) universal enough? Not as much features as WordPress has, but not so restrictive as Django [...]

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Prototyping and other stuff

By farcaller May 27th, 2008

How serious could I be in writing web application in Objective-C? Ok, seems to be that this idea has really caught me. Previously (something like December ‘07) I have got an idea of writing web application framework in Qt (yeah, Qt for everything). Later on I’ve found C++ too inflexible for my needs and switched [...]

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