Monthly Archive for June, 2004

Enhanced SETI@Home Stats

Long ago, on some lonely night, I wrote up a little display engine for showing the status of the various machines I control that run SETI@Home in a single place. Nothing fancy, but it worked. I took some time this evening to make the needed data files from all my machines available via the internet (rather than just my office and/or home networks), so that I could generate and expose the stats publicly. If you still want the official SETI@Home stats, there's a link on the page to go there. It's nothing new though; the "SETI@Home Data" table is actually generated base on data extracted from the official stats page.

Taking over DNS

Once again, I'm attempting to become my own authoritative domain host. Hopefully, everything will go smoothly this time, now that the proper IPs are already floating around.

JFission 0.2rc2

JFission 0.2rc2 is out, and available for download. RC1 was intended to be the final form, minus any bug fixes, of the 0.2 release, but after testing and using RC1, two things became apparent:

  1. jf:loop needed to be a full-fledged replacement for c:forEach
  2. grouped query output is a really nice feature, even if it's not used a whole lot

As a result, the jf:loop tag in RC2 is quite different than it's RC1 counterpart. It adds support for the items, begin, end, and step attributes of c:forEach (though step was already there for index looping), as well as the ability to group iteration over recordsets by using the new groupBy attribute and multiple nested jf:loop tags.

0.2rc2 will be the final form of the 0.2 release (again minus bug fixes), regardless of any potential features that come up.

Architecture Update

I mentioned in a post a while back that I'd switched from mod_rewrite/mod_proxy for connecting Apache with Tomcat, and I finally got around to updating the Site Architecture document to reflect those changes, so once again, it is an actual reflection of reality.