Dumb old bear!

Got up bright and early this morning -- a little too early, as it turned out. When 6am rolled around I started going upstairs to wake the Younger Daughter. Succeeded, too. It wasn't until we got out to the car at 6:30 and I noticed how dark it was that I realized that I was an hour ahead. I take her to school at half past seven.

I apologized profusely, let her bop me over the head, and sent her upstairs for an extra hour of sleep.

If you think that current web servers are bloated...

KLone - Embedded Web Server and SDK

KLone is a fully-featured, multiplatform, web application development framework, targeted especially for embedded systems and appliances.

It is a self-contained solution which includes a web server and an SDK for creating WWW sites with both static and dynamic content. When using KLone, there's absolutely no need for any additional component: neither the HTTP/S server (e.g. Apache, Netscape, Roxen), nor the typical active pages engine (PHP, Perl, ASP, Python).

KLone does everything, and does it fast and small.

KLone blends the HTTP/S server application together with its content and configuration into a single executable file. The site developer writes his/her dynamic pages in C/C++ (in usual scripting style: <% /* code */ %>) and uses KLone to transform them into embeddable, compressed native code with the native C/C++ compiler. The result is then linked to the HTTP/S server skeleton to obtain one single, ROM-able, binary file.

They don't call it "C server pages", but that's what it is.

Happy hacking

It's been a pretty productive couple of days. Most of my time at work was consumed by a day-and-a-half, ten-person hackathon on some experimental hardware. It's a fun little machine, running Debian Linux on ARM. People came up with some fascinating hacks, and I managed to record in stereo through the USB interface. We're going to have a blast with it, and hopefully get in some good research as well.

At home, I've set up the Makefile rules for putting together the "extras" for people who preorder the CD -- it will have the most-recent dumps of all the tracks, in mp3 and ogg, updated as often as I remember.

( geeky details about Makefile rules )

OK, that was exciting. If you pre-ordered, you should be getting email in a couple of days -- let's say the first week of February sometime -- pointing you at the list.

I've also, as I mentioned downwhen a couple of posts, been working on tracks; listening to a dump CD in the car and going after some easy fixes.