http://www.spiteful.com/dd/ 2010-03-12T10:51:34-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/ http://www.spiteful.com/dd/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-01-23T11:13:06-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/start?rev=1264270386&do=diff Are You a Developer or Tester? Have you ever had a hard time deciding if a library or tool is going to work once you really start using it? This wiki exists to help developers research their options and/or document problems that have wasted their time in the past. Check out Tom's blog post for a longer introduction, or look at jquery, sqlite, or zlib to see some examples. text/html 2009-07-28T05:57:59-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/sqlite?rev=1248782279&do=diff Overview SQLite is a C library that implements a self-contained, serverless SQL database engine. Data is stored in a single file per database. Permissions are left completely to the filesysem. SQLite is popular for embedded and single-user applications. There is also a command-line client program. text/html 2009-03-01T22:34:33-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/libevent?rev=1235972073&do=diff Overview libevent is a cross platform library that abstracts out the different notification APIs (specifically, /dev/poll, kqueue(2), event ports, select(2), poll(2) and epoll(4)). It also supports triggering events due to timeouts or signals. text/html 2009-02-07T14:20:15-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/sphinx?rev=1234041615&do=diff Overview Sphinx Search, an open source tool for indexing and searching data. Works well with MySQL. Case Studies * Used by Craigslist and many other sites. Gotchas * Be sure to use the debug version (./configure --with-debug) when you first start evaluating it. What might turn into silent corruption in the production version is likely to crash in debug. * It uses crc32 values instead of storing the actual words in its index. Once you get over a few hundred thousand words, collisi… text/html 2009-02-07T14:14:25-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/zlib?rev=1234041265&do=diff zlib is a free and easy to use library for compressing data. Case Studies * Used by FolderShare to compress peer to peer transfers between OSX, Linux, and Win32 machines of files up to 4GB. Compression was automatically disabled for media that was already compressed (photos, music, etc). text/html 2008-10-25T16:51:01-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/spread?rev=1224975061&do=diff One thing not mentioned in the spread documentation is that spread broadcasts all traffic to all daemons, whether they are subscribed to a group or not. (The docs always claim how efficient spread is, but IMHO conviniently skirt this issue) text/html 2008-08-11T10:23:02-07:00 http://www.spiteful.com/dd/wishlist?rev=1218471782&do=diff Here are some examples of things I'd love to see pages about. If you have experience with any of these, please take a few moments to write them down. For new pages, use this template. Do you want to learn more about a technology that isn't mentioned here? Feel free to add it.