New blog
As you see i started a blog. I was planning on rolling my own blog on mog.se, which I problably still will do if my blogging experiences turns out good. Hopefully moving all blog data over won't be too much of a hassle, or if livejournal seems really really good, i might opt for not integrating with my personal homepage, which is fairly unlikely. ;)

I was reading http://slashdot.org as usual, and saw a post about a presentation of livejournal's backend, very impressive, looks like it's even more complex than impressive too. I'm glad DrFTPD doesn't need to scale to that many users. ;)

Anyway, the speed is horrible, i read their status page and it looks like some of their newly ordered hardware hasn't arrived for 5 weeks, of which i won't talk about more here cause you can read it all here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenance/

I've been picking up DrFTPD coding today after almost 1½ month of hiatus (you can see whether I or any of the other developers are working or not on the drftpd-commits mailing list). I'm working on a new SlaveSelectionManager, which will improve support for mixed speed on slaves, using faster ones for incoming and slower ones for archiving. This task also implies working on SectionManager and Archive, since they will have to be improved aswell to support this. SectionManager doesn't need improving as much as it needs fixing, I never really had time to complete it, but it has worked fairly well so far. Config format (java.util.Properties) is a maintenance nightmare which will need replacing as soon as we find something better that is equally easy to use. :)

I'm very satisfied with the huge number of plugins that's been popping up lately, keep up the good work everyone. Many i would classify as useless, but oh so funny, very rewarding, great to see these niches filled. I'm also pondering setting up gforge (sourceforge fork) to support these projects, providing them with CVS, FRS (File Release System), forum, wiki, doc manager, etc., etc.


Post some comments and maybe you'll get me to post again soon!