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Since many things are happening for the RIFE project at conferences and user groups, I added a calendar page with an overview of upcoming events. There are still a couple more to add, but these haven't been officially confirmed yet. Once they will, the page will be updated accordingly.
So, if you want to know what all the fuzz is about, check the calendar and maybe you'll be able to have a chat with us in person near where you're living. |
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Yesterday I contacted our ISP (http://leaseweb.com) since the DRAC card on our dedicated server couldn't obtain a KVM signal anymore. To my amazement technical support reacted within minutes and upgraded the firmware of the card almost instantly. After that, I was confident again to embark on upgrading Gentoo Linux to the most recent Portage version. You never know what can go wrong, and having true remote KVM makes it a breeze to correct any possible error that happens.
First, however, I looked over the logs of the Drac card and noticed that it had detected a checksum error with the DIMM memory in bank 1. Again, I mailed tech support and 10 minutes later they had shut down the machine, replaced the faulty chip, and booted up the server again. Now that's what I call amazing support! Everything has now been upgraded and I suspect that the core dumps I often got from FishEye with JRockit were related to the faulty memory since I don't get them anymore. I warmly recommend LeaseWeb to anyone looking for dedicated hosting and next week I'll contact their sales team to inquire if we can make a discount deal for RIFE users and include them on our hosting page. |
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After having read the announce of the Winstone v0.8 release on TheServerSide, I decided to try the little beast out. I like a lot of the things I see, it really seems lean and mean. The configuration can be quickly done on the command-line as arguments, or you can put it in a basic properties file. This makes it much easier to adopt for people that are used to unix-like applications and don't feel like juggling around with XML formats. It's ability to launch war files immediately is particularly nice: java -jar winstone-0.8.jar mywebapp.war The servlet container starts up very quickly indeed and all the RIFE applications I threw at it worked just fine, even continuations-based features. They started up quite quickly too. It's interesting how the author tries to offer neat little new features that you can't find anywhere else. I particularly liked that you can embed your war file into the Winstone jar and just ship it as one file. Like this: mv yourwar.war embedded.war zip winstone-0.8.jar embedded.war java -jar winstone-0.8.jar However, then came the shock. Every feature indicates that it's a container that is aimed at embedding and easy distribution. I'm totally puzzled why the author decided to make it GPL! Who in his right mind creates a new project in already overcrowded domain and makes it less free than anything else out there! Winstone was nice to try out, but unless the author decides to adopt a commercial usage friendly license (like CDDL), it will remain a toy that I played a bit with and then threw away. |
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At last, we took some time to prepare, record and edit the first episode of our podcast: In Bed with RIFE. This will be an informal podcast about RIFE related topics, including news, tips and general chatter. We intend to publish new episodes regularly, but probably not more than once every two weeks. This is mainly due to time constraints, we never thought that it would be that much work. List to In Bed with RIFE and let us know what you think by mailing podcast@rifers.org. |
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Drone is a Java IRC Information bot written with the RIFE framework. It has a modular API that makes it possible to easily extend and customize the active feature set. It sports a modern web administration interface to handle all common tasks and a public logging section with an advanced web search. It also provides a remote IRC messaging REST API to allow easy integration with notification services. Installation is done by simply dropping a war in your servlet container or by running it straight from the standalone distribution. The highlights of this release are:
Many thanks go to Andy Miller and Sven Helmberger for their contributions. Visit the homepage at for more details: You can see it running at: Download it from: Have fun! |
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