Quantum Forest logs are written by Luis A. Apiolaza in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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This weekend I was working in my latest project—codename breedOmatic—writing a Python script to process the information obtained through a web form. I started working directly in the “production machine”; however, with a lousy internet connection the development and testing process was really slow.
I decided to use IIS (Internet Information Services) in my laptop—I am running windows 2000, but I discovered that it was not available. As an aside, at work machines are always setup in a very limited, barebones, way. Then, I needed to download a very small server (so I had some hope with my connection). Here comes TinyWeb, a wonderfully small (53KB) free web server by Ritlabs. I also installed TinyBox, a free controler for TinyWeb. The couple of programs work very well.
In my previous post I mentioned that I would give a try to JEdit, a java based text editor. Well, I installed it and I have had a great experience using it; and I am writing this post with it. Tip: if you are going to be using HTML or XHTML some very useful plugins for this editor is the XML plugin. There are some dependencies though, so you also need to have two other small plugins: Sidekick and ErrorLine.
PS [2004-09-28]
1. I found a bug in JEdit, printing to networked printers under Windows 2000.
2. Note to self: the first line of a Python script needs to contain ’#!c:\python23\python.exe’ to be ran in a windows server.
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