Several years ago (looking at archive.org it was at the end of 2001) I wrote a database that translated IPs to locations. Very similar to the city-db from maxmind.com. Perhaps someone still remembers the article in the iX about it ?

Anyway, now it is time to release the ...

Some time ago I have shown that the proxy can do connection pooling and can keep server-side connections open to be reused by another client later. The keepalive tutorial shows how this can be implemented.

When it comes to reusing a server-connection for multiple client connections we have to face ...

Many may have already heard about it last week: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/in_a_vortex

Looks like that's pretty much all that will be changing for me. I also expect that the deal will make it easier to integrate more Solaris patches for lighttpd and perhaps gives me ...

In the last round I wanted to replace everything with a lua implementation. Today, I want to take a step back and only replaces the autotools :)

On one side this follows the idea of cmake a bit more and on the other side it takes in account that make is ...

This is not a HOWTO, but more a RFC. I'm in the need for a portable, fast build-system. For lighttpd, for MySQL Proxy, ...

I need what autotools + gmake do, just in a portable (yes, including windows) and fast way. Up to now I tried SCons and cmake as alternatives ...

At MySQL I'm writing several different command-line applications from the MEMo Agent to the MySQL Proxy. They all have a common set of requirement:

• command-line options
• config-files (mapping cmd-line options to config-files)
• logfile handling (syslog, SIGHUP, ...)
• a mainloop (SIGINT, CtrlHandler, ...)
• daemonizing (daemonize, services, ...)
• plugin handling

In the proxy svn ...

I just implemented a script-cache for MySQL Proxy and had to learn a bit more about lua internals. As a result I wrote two functions which are generic enough for general consumption:

• luaL_loadfile_factory()
• luaL_loadstring_factory()

They also show how to write a lua_Reader for lua_load().

The #lua channel on freenode was ...

Premature Optimization ... we all know it. The proxy is now in a state were we can start to optimize the code a bit. After getting some complaints about the performance with keepalive I took a deeper look into the problem and came up with:

• a global script-cache with reload on ...

Lua is a great programming language and I use it as embedded scripting language in

• MySQL Proxy
• wormhole Storage Engine
• lighttpd

What impresses me most it's flexibility. What ever I come up with is only a few lines away ... and I have crazy ideas. Like profiling lua scripts with ...

It is all eric's fault. He infected me with the TDD virus.

After being in the stormy Denmark (like Kris was a two years ago: http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/941-Blavand-Strand.html ) and seeing the horses getting wet feet (high tide + storm == a lot of fun) I took some ...