Accord is a new java implementation of the Chord p2p lookup protocol. I’ve been working on this gradually over the past few months and recently received a large contribution of code from Marco Bazzoni who has joined the project. The basic functionality behind Chord is actually quite simple: given a number of nodes, Chord will [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Caching, Illustrated
5/14/2005 – 1:33 pm
Let’s just say that you have some friends (who might be called Chris and Mary) who are starting a new radio show (let’s call it Open Source) who put a link to a 54Mb mp3 on their website. And let’s just suppose that another guy who runs a really popular website called Scripting News makes [...]
uPortal Using Whirlycache
5/11/2005 – 10:26 pm
uPortal released a release candidate for version 2.5.0 recently and it includes Whirlycache 0.7.1 as part of the download. uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education. avandamet
Building J2EE Web Applications with UTF-8 Support
5/11/2005 – 9:50 pm
Recently, I’ve spent some time developing a little website project and I wanted it to support multiple languages and character sets with Unicode from the beginning. This turned out to be harder than I anticipated, but is actually not a big deal now that it’s done. Mainly, the problem was documentation – the lack of [...]