Dossy Shiobara

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Location: US, NJ/NY/VA

I run the AOLserver Wiki at Panoptic. If there are any problems with it, abuse me.

My blog is at http://dossy.org/ aka Dossy's Blog -- I try to post regularly (at least once a day, minimally once a week) and I often try to post about AOLserver-related matters.

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My current AOLserver-related projects are to:

• Ensure we meet all our goals and milestones for the AOLserver Project according to the published 2004 Roadmap.
• Start formalizing the testing/QA procedures and pre-release checklist that will go into every release: How are releases tested?
• nssic -- the Server Inter-Connect module

The following items are old and need to be updated:

• Stress-test and release version 0.6 of nsmysql (an internal database driver for MySQL)
• Write a configuration tool which will manage and generate nsd.tcl files
• Work on the AOLserver Packages - Binary distribution of AOLserver in the many popular package mangement formats like RedHat's RPM, Debian's .deb, FreeBSD's ports, Solaris's .pkg
• Write a server-side session management module, nssession
• Clean up version 0.1pre of nsfreetds (an internal database driver that connects to Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase using FreeTDS 0.51)

Articles

I'm starting to collect articles written about AOLserver that are available on the web. Eventually, these will move to their own wiki page:

• Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 by Philip Greenspun (LinuxWorld.com, July 1999)
• AOLserver - a web development platform by Irving Washington (Issue 58, Linux Gazette, October 2000)
• XML parsing in AOLserver by Irving Washington (Issue 63, Linux Gazette, February 2001)
• AOLserver (1) by Wojciech Kocjan (WEBdeveloper.pl, February 2002)
• AOLserver (2) by Wojciech Kocjan (WEBdeveloper.pl, March 2002)
• Introducing AOLserver by Reuven Lerner (Issue 101, Linux Journal, August/September 2002)
• Does AOLserver Have What It Takes to Stand Out? by Michael Hall (ServerWatch, July 2003)
• AOL Updates Its Open Source Web Server by Sean Michael Kerner (InternetNews.com, January 2005)
• AOLServer: Un servidor web avanzado y abierto (PDF) by Pietro Zuco (Issue 12, Linux Magazine Spain, August 2005)
• Play Ball: Introducing Fungoes by Mat Kovach (LinuxJournal.com, April 2006)

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Just saving a funny joke that's really relevant to the work I do: see if it happens again.

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My current scratch pad or whiteboard contents:

Current idiom:

   set lock [ns_mutex create lock]
   ns_mutex lock $lock
   catch {
       # synchronized code here
   }
   ns_mutex unlock $lock

Proposed change:

   set lock [ns_mutex create lock]
   ns_mutex eval $lock $script

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Dossy's Blog

Here's the three most recent RSS entries from my blog. This is just testing out a MediaWiki 1.5 extension I'm working on:

<feed limit="3">http://dossy.org/index.xml</feed>