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We are using this server for almost a year now.
Last forum post seen in November, 2011.
Last server version released 28/03/12.
Just wondering if anyone knows whats happening inside the company?
Should we expect something or should we start looking for alternatives?
I did what you did not do: using email to ask the question to the people able to answer.
And they replied that:
the forum was closed because they could not cope with the amount of accounts created daily to publish junk
the next version will be the most important ever made for G-Wan, with new features like a caching reverse proxy and an elastic load-balancer as well as system replacements like a wait-free memory allocator.
With regard to such developments, a 3-month period without publishing releases sounds reasonable.
More reasonable than assuming that such an 'inactivity period' means that "the project is dead".
Would you say that for other Web servers like Apache which have much larger release cycles?
You should always be expecting something from G-WAN. It's a great piece of software. Here's the other thing too: G-WAN was expertly engineered. That doesn't mean that there are no bugs in it, or that features can't be implemented, but G-WAN is incredibly tight.
It has lean code, it does what it supposed to do, very well, and it is built for the developer to add in the functionality that hasn't been put in there yet.
That's the beauty of it, or one facet of the beauty.
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Dont get me wrong people, let me clarify.
I would like to ask if I can trust node.js. I know its an amazing tool. But its a really young platform, to be honest. Should I start playing around with it (production, not just experimental use), or should I wait till it "grows up"?
Does it work fine on Windows? Because at the beginig it was not supported. Are there any stress tests that actually prove that its safe and can be trusted?
It demands to write a lot of code by hand, stuff that in other platforms are done by just one line of code. I know you are gonna say to me "that depends on your experience" . I agree, but does it worth "learning" node? What if its developing stops? Again, I'm only asking because its pretty young.
What of node's add-ons and modules are to be trusted about their safety/stability? There are so many out there.
Is it stable? And finally, what about node's interoperability? Does it work on every platform/browser? What about smartphones and mobile devices?
Again, dont get me wrong, I am not critisizing. I am just concerned because its pretty new, everybody is excited and I haven't see any cons, or safety/stability issues around.
Thanks
I don't understand why would anyone choose to use node.js to do backend: the statically typed code is easier to maintain and Javascript is not the best (a good?) language.
That said, there are situations, where it makes a lot of sense to have the same code running in the browser and in the back end. When you run into one of these, you will know. And then Node works just fine. We've had it in production for months exposing its functionality as an internal web service to our back end application and haven't had any problems with it.
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We are looking for any browser based file upload solution, commercial or free, that manages to survive internet connection interruptions and continues the upload process once the connection is re-established.
The scenario: a website used in areas where the users experience very unstable internet connections and yet need to upload files up to 3 MB (which sounds low but can really be a problem).
There are various jQuery and Flash based solutions around, like CuteUpload, Ajax Uploader and so on, but none of them has so far implemented a mechanism that helps in such a scenario. I am aware that the http protocol does not handle connection resets in a way that allows continuing a post.
A solution is conceivable if the client software knows how much has been uploaded already and is able to slice the upload into chunks while the server-side is smart enough to glue them back together. Or if client and server agree on chunk sizes beforehand, enumerate them, keep the session open and make sure every little piece get shipped. Possible, but probably not easy to write. We are working on .NET, but the server platform doesn't really matter.
Does anyone have a hint where to look?
there are no really popular or well known solutions for this problem. And I really hope that future versions of HTML will support this out-of-the-box.
But for now you can look at http://upload.thinfile.com/upload/thin.php which is a paid tool but you can try the demo for free.
Also, in the rails world, there is a FOSS gem https://github.com/stakach/Resumable-Uploads.
The method / approach they use is quite sound and cross browser compatible.
Also, don't look for "internet connection interruptions" look for "resumable file uploads" when googling :)
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I need a lightweight issue tracker for a new project, with about 5 people on the project. Any recommendation? I read the two other threads on that topic, but it didn't seem satisfactory. I don't need to integrate with git. I just need something super simple, and very, very easy to setup, like a scrum board in the computer (other teams here have physical scream boards). I'm about to roll out an Excel spreadsheet in a shared directory on my Linux box...
I recommend a github account. Make a repo there and track issues using the native github issues that come with each git repository. Then use www.huboard.com to add an extremely lightweight agile/kanban view of your issues. It's easy to set up, but works well. Very simple and lightweight, and you can customize your kanban board view in huboard easily.
If you have a .edu email address github is free, and if not you can get an account that supports five commiters for only $7/month. Well worth it for the awesome infrastrucure.
Jira is nice, but it costs a little bit of money. If you're cash-strapped, you may want to consider Trac. It provides a lot of the same functionality as Jira, but there is no cost associated with it. However, if you decide you want to use a plugin to specifically track your project using Scrum and Kanban, then for your team size Jira/Greenhopper will be much less expensive than the Trac/Agilo combination. Additionally, the Jira University has a number of online-courses on how to use Jira and the Greenhopper plugin that is very inexpensive.
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I'm trying to periodically check out if several linux machines are alive.
My idea is to have a main computer that receives a periodic message from every machine, so if any of them stops messaging, the main one will know something's going wrong with that particular equipment.
I want to make it as "lite" as possible, I mean, using the less data transmission possible, because some of the machines I want to look after are placed on installation with a not so good internet connection. So, if it's possible, I'll prefer not to use email or ftp.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance.
You should use a dedicated piece of software for monitoring your infrastructure. Inventing something from scratch will probably take longer and be much less powerful than such a product. nagios for example is something that is commonly used for this purpose.
Well, you could connect to the main machine on a specific port and keep sending one byte periodically. Is that "lite" enough? :)
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Can anyone recommend any cloud based alternatives too SharePoint? I have seen a couple good ones on sites like www.sharepointalternative.com and www.topsharepointalternatives.com but does anyone have experience of ones they have used before?
We are a small company of 16 people but are looking to expand to around 30 by the end of the year and so should be easily scalable. We would need to be able to easily share and edit files and have a version control.
It also has to work as an internal and external portal as we want to share with clients as well as internally.
Check out http://www.alfresco.com/. We tried it, but it was not a good solution for us since we have hundreds of users and our groups needed many sub-sites with their own permissions.
google apps for sure!
http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/09/articles/sharepoint-vs-google-apps.html
It's free up until 20 users I believe. So you can easily try it out without extra costs and than pay a little if you expand enough
CMSWire has a great list of Sharepoint Alternatives. Glasscubes seems to be the most viable alternative for what you are looking for, however I have zero experience with it.