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The idea has been brought up a few times, that we would upload our minds into a computer and in this way would be able to live forever.

How would that look like?

At it's base, every uploaded mind would represent a program with access to data storage and computing resources. These programs can interact with each other not unlike programs on the internet today. For example like in a virtual reality game world. (Second Life, etc)

In uploaded form we would manipulate our environment through other programs, that we create ourselves or that others create for us. There might be a market to trade these programs and its products.

Now, anything that is programmable will have bugs and is exploitable, therefore it will be necessary to protect against such attacks. Much like we use encryption today to keep things private, encryption and self protection will play a large role in such a cyberworld.

Unlike today where we can rely on physical protection, healtcare, etc to support us, in cyberspace, all protection comes in form of programs, and that means instead of relying on others to act in our behalf in order to pretect us, every one of us will be able to get a copy of a protection program that we then will be able to control by ourselves. It's all bits and bytes, so there is no reason to assume that we would not be able to have full control over our environment.

We could build cyberspace without these protections, but it is inconceivable that anyone would accept a world where their own well being is not ensured. Either from the outside, or from the inside. But if everyone is uploaded, then there is no more outside, and therefore all protection must come from the inside, through programs. And since even now, most people are not skilled programmers, and that is unlikely to change much in the future, it is hard to imagine that people would willingly enter a world where their life depends on their programming skills. No, people must be able to trust that no harm will come to them in this new world where they otherwise would not have the skill to protect themselves.

The reason we feel safe in this world is because we agreed to a set of laws which we enforce, and for the most part, crimes are visible and can be persecuted. People who live in places where this is not the case don't feel safe, and noone would willingly leave their save home to move to such an area.

In a cyberworld, such safety can only be achieved by making crime impossible to begin with, because given enough resources, a computer program can do damage without leaving a trace.

This has a few severe implications.

If real crime is impossible and we further have full control over our own protection, controlling what data we receive that could possibly offend us, then effectively we can no longer be hurt. There is no physical pain anyways, and any virtual pain we could just switch off.

If we can not be hurt, the corollary is that we can not really hurt anyone. We can not do anything that has any negative consequences on anyone else.

We can not even steal someones computing resources, or rather we probably could but there would be no point because even if computing resources are unevenly distributed, it would not matter.

There is no sense of time, since any sense of time is simulated and can be controlled. So if we were trying to build something that takes lots of time, we could adjust our sense of time so that we would not have to feel the wait for the computation to complete. With that in mind, stealing resources to make computation faster would become meaningless.

And if we could take all resources from someone, then that would effectively kill them as their program could no longer run. It would be frozen in storage. Allowing this could start a war of attrition that would end with one person controlling everyone else and everyone fearing for their life. It just doesn't make sense to allow that.

In other words we no longer have freedom to do evil. Or more drastically, we no longer have complete free will. Free will implies the ability to chose evil. Without that choice free will is limited.

In summary life in cyberspace has the following attributes:

  • We will all live there eternally (well, as long as the computer keeps running).
  • There is no sense of time.
  • We will keep our sense of identity.
  • We will be able to interact with every human ever uploaded.
  • We will continue to advance and develop.
  • There is no power to do evil.
  • We will be able to affect the physical world, and the physical world will affect us.

Here is how cyberspace looks like from the outside:

  • When a person is uploaded, its physical body ceases to function and decays.
  • Everyone can be uploaded, there is no specific requirements or conditions that would prevent anyone from being uploaded.
  • We are assuming that we will be able to communicate with those in cyberspace, but imagine how it would look like if we could not communicate with an uploaded person. We would then actually not be able to tell if they successfully uploaded or not. We would in fact not even be able to tell whether cyberspace exists at all, and we would have to take a leap of faith that it is real.


While discussing this article, a lot of arguments were made about the details of how cyberspace would look like. In particular it was questioned that there would be no pain. Most commenters could not imagine that we'd want a painfree life.

That is fine. These particular details are not important. There are many ways we can imagine how cyberspace could look like. What is important is this:

These attributes of cyberspace as described here, are all attributes of life after death as described at least by the Baha'i Faith, and possibly other religions.

This is significant not because of the attributes themselves, but because this means that given todays grasp of technology, at least this version of cyberspace looks indistinguishable from life after death.

Now, if we are unable to distinguish cyberspace from life after death, then how would we know which one we are dealing with? If it is possible that cyberspace looks like life after death, isn't it equally possible that life after death looks like cyberspace? Is it possible that they are one and the same?

Why do we want to upload into cyberspace? Because we want eternal life free from bodily limitations? Isn't this something that religions have promised us for millenia?

If that is the case, wouldn't we be trying to reinvent something that maybe already exists?

So maybe, cyberspace already exists, and death is just the upload process? Maybe we are simply not yet advanced enough to perceive or understand our life beyond the point of upload from the outside?

Maybe we just need to evolve further before we are able to communicate with those who are uploaded?

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Once in a while i have someone reject to work with me because they don't know Pike. What they are really saying is, that they are not willing to learn something new.

If you are a decent programmer, then learning a new programming language is not hard. Technology changes all the time, and every year you'll learn new frameworks and tools. That's part of your work. So why shy away from learning a new language?

If you can't bring yourself to learn a new language then i suspect you'll also have a hard time learning anything else. So actually i should thank you by refusing the job because of that.

You say: learning a new language is hard.

If you believe that, you haven't tried enough. Sure, if you pick some of the more unusual languages like Haskell, it may be hard (but i don't know, i have not tried learning Haskell yet) and in general, learning your second language is probably the hardest (because the first language you learn, everything is new and you expect it to be hard, but with the second language maybe you fear it is as dificult as the first one, and you don't want to go through that again), also learning a new syntax may take some getting used to.

But all of these hurdles are measured in days.

Pike in particular has a syntax very close to C and Java. (that is, operations that are the same in C, Java and Pike also use the same syntax, with very few exceptions). This makes the syntax also similar to Javascript, PHP, and the many other languages with a C-inspired syntax. Picking that up should not be hard.

The rest is learning the Pike libraries and figuring out what makes Pike tick. You should have that down within a few weeks.

This is the same for pretty much any other language you might start to learn.

I am talking from experience here. I'll give you a few examples:

At my first fulltime job i was hired for my Pike experience. As a junior programmer who hadn't finished univeristy yet, i didn't really have any work history. But i did have a number of Pike modules for the Roxen webapplicationserver that i could show off.

At the same time a university graduate was hired, who had not even seen Pike before joining the team. Within a few weeks she was as productive as the rest of us, and having finished her studies she arguably knew more about programming and could explain more about Pike than i could.

At another job a few years later one of my managers who had just recently joined the company fell in love with Pike, and when he left he built his own company using Pike as the main development language. This guy was not even a programmer.

When i came to china, my first job was for a python programmer. I had learned python by then, but i had no practical experiece whatsoever. I was allowed to do the programming tests in Pike (they had an automated testsuite, which of course could not handle Pike, so in my case the answers were reviewed manually. They had no problems reviewing their tests in a language they had never seen before. That's how good they were). One of the tests i did in python, and i passed and got the job. I was productive from the start.

A few years ago i hired 3 chinese students to work for me. Since this was the first time i hired anyone, i was not sure how learning a new language would go down, on the first day, possibly their first experiene working with a foreigner too. So the first project i gave them was in Java. It was a Java client for the sTeam server. Two of the students left after the summer holidays were over, but one stayed on, and his next project was in Pike. Also for the sTeam server, so he could reuse his knowledge of the APIs that he learned during the Java project, but he did have to learn the language itself. He was productive within a few days.

Last year i was hired to help with a PHP project, using the Laravel framework. I had never really written PHP code before, but the framework was not so different from others (eg Django) so that i was productive immideately. And i ended up fixing other peoples code too.

This summer, i was working with 3 students for Google Summer Of Code. One student worked on the sTeam server, and had to learn Pike for that. He did it during the get-to-know period and started churning out code from the first day of the coding-period.

Another student picked a smalltalk project. She learned smalltalk as soon as she picked the project, joined the pharo-smalltalk community and became a recognized contributor to the pharo 4.0 release. All before her proposal for the GSOC project was even accepted.

Convinced yet?

You say: Noone else uses Pike. It won't help me get a job.

That is probably true. But it is becoming less true as time goes by.

One of the problems with hiring is that, just as you believe learning a new language is hard, so do the hiring managers, and thus they search only for programmers that already know the language that they will need to use.

In the Pike community too. I was the only Pike programmer available who liked moving countries, and so i had my pick for jobs in the USA, in Germany, in New Zealand, in Latvia. Thanks to Pike i got around. Try that with a popular language.

Fortunately, this is changing. Like my first China job, more companies recognizing the ability to learn as more important than a particular language. For them it won't matter which programming languages you learned, as long as you can demonstrate your learning skill. In fact, learning an unknown language will let you stand out as someone serious about learning programming languages.

Learning new languages will also increase your confidence in your ability. For that PHP job i was never asked how much PHP experience i had. I did make clear that i had no experience with Laravel, which is something they could not expect from everyone, even if they had plenty of PHP experiece. But i had experience with similar frameworks, and i was confident that i could pick up what i needed quickly. And i proved it.

When i am hiring programmers myself, i definetly don't care which languages they know. All i care is that they know at least two languages. These people have at least gotten over the second language hump, and learning a third language will be a breeze. Whether it's Pike or any other language.

Stop telling me that you can't learn a new programming language. You can! Because if you couldn't, you would not qualify as a programmer to begin with. At least, i would not hire you.

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In this session we are going to build a simple RESTful API using the Zinc-REST package.

The base image is again Moose, now the latest build of Moose 5.1

You may watch part one, part two and part three of this series if you are interested to find out what lead to this point. They are however not needed to be able to follow this session.

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In the second part of this series we transform our website to serve all content as files from a FileSystem object.

If you haven't yet, take a look at part 1

In the next session we will serve an actual web-application

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For the community-calendar project in total, 11 tasks were proposed, of which 7 got completed:

Not so much work got done on the code itself, but we now have some documentation of the API as well as the start of a testing framework to help keep the API stable.

As a sideproject, these tasks were designed to explore the ember.js framework. the calendar-widget, going to be embedded into different websites was a good target because we now can offer both versions for embedding.

For ember.js the student, samarjeet wrote about the work in his weblog. An initial comparison: Comparing the community-calendar
Creating Ember Components turned out to be more dificult, and we had to enlist outside help to solve it.
Finally, a deeper comparison of Angular.js vs. Ember.js

This leaves us with 4 tasks that were not worked on

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I have been interviewed by CSDN. The interview has been published today in chinese.

The original english answers as i sent them are below:

1. Could you introduce yourself to us first?

I am using and developing Free Software and Open Source for more than 20 years. I am a contributor to the Pike programming language, the Foresight Linux distribution and several other Free Software Projects. I co-edited a book on Pike and organized developer conferences. I am also a mentor at FOSSASIA. Throughout my career I focused on developing and advocating Free Software. I have lived and worked in several countries around our planet Earth. I came to china in 2008. I am currently the CTO at eKita, a startup in Bangkok, and the General Manager at Realsoftservice, a Linux service firm in Beijing where i offer software development, training and internships. I live in Beijing with my family.

2. Compared with your own country, what attracts you most in China or Beijing?

China (and Asia in general) has a different culture from western countries. Learning chinese culture allows me to look at situations from a different perspective.

I believe that all the world should be united into one country. And in order to do that we need to understand the different parts of the world, what everyone can contribute to this world, and what unifies us.

China is a large part of this world, and also not much is known about china outside of it. The only way to learn about china is to be here.

China is also huge. I like to travel, and china allows me to travel long distances to places that are very different from each other without having to cross any borders.

3. What is your role in BLUG? Could you describe the important development milestones of BLUG?

I am acting as the secretary. That means i help to arrange meetings and events for the group.

I joined the BLUG in 2008 and i am not familiar with the history before. One important event before i joined was the 2007 Software Freedom Day which was chosen as the best SFD event for that year.

At the time, when i joined, the BLUG had monthly meetings, frequent quan'r dinners and BLUG Tuesday events. We also had a group aiming to build a quadcopter and a library. Active members were both foreigners and chinese.

In summer 2008 an intern at Exoweb where i worked at the time, together with me initiated a hackaton event called "Coding For Fun". I then continued hosting the event by myself as part of the BLUG. When i left Beijing other BLUG members continued hosting the event.

When I came back to Beijing some active members had left. I took over the management of the group in 2013, when most active members had left. At that time active participation was very low. I continued running the monthly meetings and Coding For Fun events. In Autumn we re-started BLUG Tuesday and used it to test new meeting locations. That way we found our current meeting place.

We slowly regained new active members, most of them chinese.

4. What kind of difficulties have BLUG encountered in the process of development， and how to solve them?

The main difficulty we have is finding good locations for the meeting and Coding For Fun events. It is still an unsolved problem. We don't have sponsors to pay for using locations, so we rely on offers for places we can use for free.

5. What are the daily activities in BLUG? Do you (or BLUG) have any interactions with other communities?

I am trying to visit and keep relations with every group that i can find in Beijing. I am regularly participating at events from the Beijing Open Party, Ruby, Python, Angular.js meetups. Barcamp and more.

Most of these groups have Linux users, but as i am a programmer, many groups are interesting to me personally too.

We also work with other groups to organize events, for example the Software Freedom Day. or we support conferences like and FUDcon or the OpenSUSE summit, all of which had volunteers who are BLUG members.

We also participated at Google Code-In with FOSSASIA.

6. Have you ever attended open source activities in other countries or regions?

What are the differences between other countries and China in Open-source activities?

Every place and every country i have lived in, i participate in the local activities. These vary in size and regularity. In some cases my visit was the motivation for a group to have more meetings. In most groups the meeting involved some form of topic presentation and discussion. But sometimes it was just going out for dinner. Really not much different from china.

7. From your personal point of view, could you share with us some tips on how to manage one open source community successfully?

Well, there are different kinds of communities, for example those that revolve around a particular software project where all members in some form contribute to that software project. The contributions to such projects are often motivated by the contributors own needs. The main goal for community managers is to get active contributors to the project.

Other communities are more loose where people just share a common ideal, but actually may contribute to different projects.

The BLUG is of the latter kind. People contribute to the BLUG more out of a desire to serve the community than out of a personal need. And many do not contribute to the BLUG directly.

The goal of the BLUG is to provide a venue for Free Software contributors and users to share and meet like-minded people. Most Free Software Communities are spread all over the world, whereas groups like the BLUG are very local.

To manage a local group, i believe persistence would be the most important aspect. If the group has meetings, they should be regular, so that new people can easily find out when and where the meetings happen. Then it takes a while for the word to spread, and attendance to grow. Keep holding the meetings, even if only two or three people join. Then keep advertising the group and invite new people. Eventually more will join and come back regularly.

8. Could you introduce us some active and outstanding members in BLUG?

It is difficult to praise the contributions of some people without unjustly leaving out others. Moreover i don't even know all the contributions of every member. Some members don't come to the meeting often but they are very active elsewhere in the Free Software and Open Source Community. This is one of the things that tends to be miss-understood about the Free Software community.

Some people worry if they release their work with a Free Software license, then others can take advantage of it without giving anything back. But we don't know if those users are not active somewhere else making contributions to our society in other ways.

This is after all what i believe is the purpose of our life. All Men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization. (人人生来是为了推动文明不断进步的)

9. GNU project founder Richard Stallman came to China in May, 2014, did you have a meet with him?

And what do you think about the Free Software campaign leaded by Richard Stallman since 1980th?

I have met richard stallman a few times before, but never had much direct interaction with him. This year he joined us for a BLUG Dinner. As for his campaign, i fully support the idea of Free Software. I believe that all knowledge should be shared, and everyone should have the opportunity to use all of the worlds knowledge in their work. To fulfill the purpose of life we should all use our work to contribute to society. And allowing others to use and modify our software is a great and very easy way of doing that.

10. The last one, could you reveal to us the BLUG's future development plan, and what kind of activity will be organized in the future days?

Future plans of the BLUG depend on its members. For now my goal is to get more active members, people who help to host events, give talks, or help contribute to our website. The BLUG website is very old and in dire need of an upgrade. but it is difficult to do if we want to keep all the data.

I am also trying to work on a community calendar where we can share all events

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I am learning how to build a website with a RESTful API in Pharo Smalltalk. This project started during Google Code-In as a set of tasks for students to work on. A handful of students were interested and picked up tasks to learn Pharo.

Now that Google Code-In is over, the students are interested to continue learning and so i am running workshops with them, where we explore the tools needed to build this server.

The first workshop was held last week on sunday the 25th, and the next one will be on saturday the 31st of Jnauary. from 2pm to 6pm chinese time, that is 7am to 11am CET or 6am to 10am UTC. We will meet on freenode irc in the channels #fossasia and #pharo.

A part of website consists of static files. To simplify development and deployment, we want to serve those files from the smalltalk image. One way to hold several documents inside an image is using a memory FileSystem. The FileSystem class is described in the book "Deep into Pharo" in chapter 3.

In the first workshop we try to use the FileSystem class in a sample application. We use the tutorial "Building and deploying your first web app with Pharo" as a starting point, and adapt the code to store images in a FileSystem object.

If you want to follow along, please first complete the tutorial and then watch the screencast below to continue:

In the next session we will convert the rest of the website to using our FileSystem object.

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For years i have been meaning to learn smalltalk. my first exploration started about 10 years ago while teaching two children to make a game with squeak. Then i worked through a tutorial about making a simple game. Unfortunately it didn't capture my interest. So the my attempts to learn smalltalk were stalled as i searched for a project that i could do with it.

Why do i want to learn smalltalk? Because it is the first object-oriented language. Many of the OO concepts were invented in smalltalk. There is also the concept of working in an image that not only contains my code but also a full IDE which is used to update my code at runtime. Updating code at runtime is a concept that has been with me for more than 20 years now, ever since i started programming MUDs in LPC and writing modules for the Spinner/Roxen webserver in Pike. Pike allows recompiling classes at runtime. Any new instances will be made from the new class, while old instances remain as is. If the compilation fails, the class is not replaced and the old class continues to work. This way it is possible to make changes on a live server without restarting and disrupting ongoing requests. A decade later i discovered sTeam, the platform that also drives this very website. It takes this process even further: sTeam persists code and objects in a database. While in Roxen objects live as long as it takes to process a request, in sTeam objects are permanent, much like in a smalltalk image. sTeam then adds the capability to update live objects with new class implementations. The image concept of smalltalk is therefore already very familiar, and the major difference is smalltalk's GUI.

Recently a friend asked me what it would take to build a text search application for the Baha'i writings in chinese. There is one for english and other western languages, but not for chinese, and it does not run on mobile devices. It is also not Free Software, so i can't use it as a base to improve. But i didn't really want to take on a new project either so i just filed the idea for the time being.

One of my customers is managing access to several internal resources through htaccess and htpasswd. Because they have many interns who need to have access to some of these, and because they are now spread over multiple servers, it is becoming more and more cumbersome to manage them manually via these files. It also does not help that a salt module which we could use to help depends on apache helpers, which we can not install because apache conflicts with nginx which we are using. So i started exploring alternatives. One such alternative is a different way for nginx to verify access. It can make a request to an external service which then grants or rejects access depending on the resource and credentials. This could be implemented as a webservice with a webinterface to manage the users. I looked for some existing applications that would get me part of the way but i found nothing suitable.

Enter Google Code-In: FOSSASIA invited the BLUG to join them as mentors.

At first i put up tasks for the community-calendar project, but then i realized that this was an opportunity to explore new ideas. Figuring that teaching is the best way to learn i put up those project ideas as tasks for the students. I could ask students to learn and explore, and finally work on those projects. I would pick the technology and guide the students through a sequence of tasks to acquire the skills needed to implement the actual applications. This was my chance to get back into smalltalk. Since code-In targets middle and highschool students, it is quite unlikely that any of them already know smalltalk, or have even heared about it. so in a way this will introduce a few students to smalltalk. I picked pharo because i feel it is going in the right direction trying to improve itself and also adding things like commandline support.

The desktop application was straight-forward: find out how to embed text-documents in the image and make them searchable.

The web application took more exploration. I wanted to do it with a RESTful api and a javascript frontend. Again, the frontend was easy to define: create a user management interface. For the backend, the question was which webframework to use? AIDA/web has builtin user management and REST style url support by default. Seaside includes a REST module, but both are strong on generating html which i am not interested in. Then there is iliad, which appears more lightweight. Eventually i figured i could just let the students explore each, and i created a task for each tutorial that i could find:

(some of these i repeated because the student who did the them first time didn't pick up the follow-up tasks.)

Finally i discovered that Zinc, the HTTP server used by most frameworks is powerful enough to build a RESTful API without all the templating extras that the above frameworks provide. I also discovered teapot, a microframework that might be useful.

Once the students are familiar with the smalltalk environment, they can move on to the next steps:

Of course there are also tasks for the front-end

Related is also this task about a file editor, which i believe should make it easier to edit static assets like html and css pages from within the image:

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FOSSASIA is a mentor organization at Google Code-In, and the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group has been invited to join them as mentors.

Two of us joined and created tasks for our projects.

At first i created tasks for our community-calendar project, but then i took the opportunity to get students to work on new projects that i had been hoping to do. For a long time i wanted to learn smalltalk, but i lacked good project ideas. This changed recently, as a friend asked me about a text search application, and one of my customers needed a better solution than htpasswd to manage users for nginx. I decided that both could be done in smalltalk.

So i created tasks for three new projects: A text search application to run on the desktop, and one on mobile, and a user-management web-application. For the desktop and the web-application i stipulated pharo smalltalk as the implementation platform. For good measure i also threw in my idealist for sup, a reimplementation of the frontend for this weblog in angular.js, a t-shirt design for the BLUG, packaging pike, and exploration of the api. I also proposed a new structure of the files for the fossasia api, and helped mentor a few tasks relating to getting chinese communities added to the api.

  • community-calendar (7 tasks)
  • desktop text search application (2 tasks)
  • mobile text search application (2 tasks)
  • user-management web-application (12 tasks)
  • sup ideas (more than 50 ideas, create tasks as needed)
  • fossasia (1 task)
  • sTeam weblog ui (1 task)
  • blug t-shirt (1 task)
  • amber (2 tasks)
  • file-editor (1 task)
  • packaging pike (1 task)
  • api (3 tasks)
new tasks will be added as needed, when i get another idea for improvements on one of the projects, or if i feel a task needs to be redone.

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We need to do something like this instead:


Unfortunately this only works if the filenames don't contain spaces.

fish handles spaces in filenames just fine:




while true
  sleep 2


ANSI escape-sequences help:

while true
  echo \e\[H
  sleep 2



while true
    echo \e\[H
    du -h (ls -tr) | tail -20 | sed -e 's/^/\x1b\[K/' | cut -c -(math $COLUMNS - 2)
    sleep 2




while true
    echo \e\[H
    echo \e\[0J
    sleep 2

This is now pretty usable, so we'll leave it at that. There is still some room for improvement though. For example we could make the line-count flexible based on the terminal height. Also currently we are estimating that the size column is at least 2 characters wide so the tabstop adds at most 5 characters worth of space which cut does not count. Should it be less then we would get a linewrap again and if it is more then we get empty space at the end of the line. cut likely also has problems with multibyte unicode characters. This can probably be solved by switching the terminal in a no-wrap mode while the command is running, or finding a replacement for cut that handles these issues.


For those who prefer to stick with sh, i found a way how do deal with spaces:

watch 'ls -tr | while IFS= read -r i; do du -h "$i"; done | tail -20 | cut -c -$(($COLUMNS-5))'
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constant default_port = 8080;
constant my_version = "0.0";

Protocols.HTTP.Server.Port port;

string basedir = "/srv/www";

int main(int argc, array(string) argv)
  int my_port = default_port;


  port = Protocols.HTTP.Server.Port(handle_request, my_port);
  return -1;

void handle_request(Protocols.HTTP.Server.Request request)

  mapping response = ([]);

  response->server="SocServe " + my_version;

  mixed tstat = file_stat(target);

  if (tstat && tstat->isdir)
    response->type = "text/html";
    response->error = 200;
    response->data = dirlist(target);
  else if (tstat && tstat->isreg)
    response->error = 200;
    response->file = Stdio.File(target);
    response->type = "text/html";
    response->error = 200;


string dirlist(string path)
  array dir = get_dir(path);



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(And inside a character set the . doesn't need to be escaped.)

Putting it all together we get s/\v(\w)(\_[^.?!:;]*)/\u\1\2/g

Instead of matching a whole sentence we can also try searching for the end of the previous sentence: s/\v(%^|[.?!:;]\_s+)(\a)/\1\u\2/g

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Why PhoneGap?


One great feature is that you can mix native and html views



The phonegap guys even claim that they don't have competition.







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I will write about four types of collaboration:
I have experienced all four.








Now let us look at the types where collaboration worked.






(Here are some articles on why interruptions are bad:












I wrote documentation.

Author :mbaehr   |   size :8210Bytes   |   Publish Date :May/14/12/18:00   |   to Top

LXer today posted an article that compares email to MPI.





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A few months ago i discovered, a website where various programming tasks are implemented in many different languages.









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