Today I’ve thought that FOW is mature enough to be tested on my linux hardware, so I’ve got updated Cocotron and built FOW on linux.
I have to say lots of thanks to Johannes Fortmann, who has been answering all my stupid questions about GCC, Obj-C runtime and Cocotron.
Now, it is time to really publish some [...]

I’ve just implemented nearly all the GET/POST support code in FOWRequest. New implementaion is working better, faster and more secure. All the thread handlers are now wrapped with @try/@catch so server is not going to die on runtime exceptions anymore.
Now working on sessions implementation. Still considering between memcached and sqlite3, but seems that latter is [...]

As usual, not much news here, but I’m still working on FOW ;) Here goes the summary of last updates:

Got HTTP server from Google Toolbox. It might be useful for testing the code;
ActiveRecord looked too complex for me. You can use anything you want for your ORM, but seems that there will be only some DB [...]

Today was the day when I finally stopped tweaking ugly builtin Apache config and installed lighttpd on my OSX. Bad news, I’ve coded rather big part of FOWRequest based on mod_rewrite-specific variables!
It took some time to re-implement old functionality, unit tests are still broken, but now I consider some of the advertised functionality as useless. [...]

I’ve got the first completely working code!
Screenshot shows FOW running a simple fastcgi server on OSX with Apache2.
What’s implemented:

lots of FOWRequest stuff
URL resolver
CTemplate wrapper in objective-c
FastCGI server controller

I’ll see if this thing can work in linux/cocotron in the morning.
If somebody is interested, here’s the controller code for the page above:

@implementation Handler
 
- (FOWResponse *)handle:(FOWRequest *)rq
{
FOWResponse *rs [...]

There wasn’t much activity here for a pretty long time. I’ve been working on several iPhone projects, mastering Objective-C magic. That was a nice time and I have somewhat changed the way I look at Objective-C. Anyways that are good news for FOW.
I’ve got Cocotron building natively on linux without major problems. The only thing [...]

I’ve started coding Ruby on Rails today. This would be my first programming experience in RoR (and in Ruby at all). I have several webapps that I’ve been planning to code in Django, but I’ll give RoR a try to see other way of developing web applications (that might be implemented later in FOW).
Currently what [...]

I wonder, why so nice thing as Cocoa has nothing built in for regular expressions matching. There are various 3rd-party frameworks, and I can still use plain PCRE.
If this was Mac-only project I’d just use RegexKit framework. It looks very nice, and has rich documentation. Bad thing that it is a framework. It might be [...]

The current code is not compilable even under Cocotron. It uses rare, but nice and optimized features of Cocoa.
What that means? In the most simple case: no FOW for Linux. That automatically means no FOW for 99.9% of possible users. Guys that host their stuff on OSX servers already have nice and elegant solutions for [...]

While writing a parser for generic queries I’ve discovered a very useful method of NSString named stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding. Yeah, I can agree that such method name fully describes what it does, but geez, the source is so hard to read!
[d setValue:
[[s substringFromIndex:r.location+1] stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]
forKey:
[[s substringToIndex:r.location] stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]
];