Archive for February, 2010
beanstalkd - A distributed and persistent memcached-based queue
“Beanstalkd is an in-memory queuing system. It supports named queues (called ‘tubes’), priorities, and delayed delivery of messages (called ‘jobs’).” I don’t know why the beanstalkd developers chose to switch terminology, but this looks pretty decent. It saves me writing my own persistent and distributed queueing system.
The Xapian Project
It looks like I’ll need to do some full-text indexing at work in the near future. Xapian’s ability to index RDBMSs will come in handy.
Scalable, WSGI-compatible Websockets on Eventlet
“Here’s a websocket implementation that works inside (a slight modification to) WSGI. It requires the latest development version of Eventlet ” Websockets communicate with the browser via wait() and send(). An updating graph is included as an example.
FFmpeg Little Helper - An easy to use FFmpeg code generator
This web form spits out FFmpeg command-line options to convert video to a variety of formats and output settings.