Uriel Katz Blog

After spending a day searching for a Memcached Windows 64-bit build ,I finally gave up and compile it by myself.

I manage to build it based on Memcached 1.4.2 with service code from:http://jehiah.cz/projects/memcached-win32/

The build platform is mingw64(google it) and regular mingw for configuring(as mingw64 get recognize as cygwin).

This is true 64-bit,running stats will show you the pointer_size is 64 and you can make the memcached process go over 4GB.

You can download the binaries from here,source here.

PS:if someone can mirror this i will appriciate this as i pay for the bandwidth :)

In order to improve the development of JStORM i decided to move it to Mercurial.

I couldn`t find the copy of the svn repository from my old server so i had to start from a clean Mercurial repository so there is no history.

The new mercurial repository is on bitbucket: JStORM repository.

Today happened something really strange,i was looking at this blog source code to take some code to use in other site and i notice there is no urls.py(the routing file in django) file,so i wondered how this is working?!

a quick look at the folder(both local/svn and server) showed that there is only a urls.pyc file,so now i need to recover my source file from a bytecode file. searching in google gave me a tool called decompyle but it wasn`t working yelling something about a bad magic number(i guess it didn`t support python 2.5),so i looked around and found DePython this nifty site convert your pyc to py for FREE(if it is under 5KB),this site saved my day :)

Well after more than a year with Vista in my laptop,i am happy to get back to Linux land. I used Vista for the reason it could use all of my 4GB(and it used alot of it).

I personally hate Vista,it is a unfinished version of windows that took years to develop,so after getting some really weird problems with application crashing all the time and trying to fix this for few hours I tried to install Windows XP but to my surprise my laptop(HP dv9925nr with 4GB RAM) isn`t supported by HP in Windows XP so there is no drivers,arghh!!!

I tried for a couple of hours to search for drivers and then gave up,i like Windows XP - it is a stable OS which i used alot but i also like Linux alot.

I moved from Linux back to Windows XP for my work which was mostly in C# with Visual Studio. But now i left that place so i decided to install Linux again,i grabbed the latest Kubuntu version 8.10 and tried to installed it,i had a small problem that was fixed by adding acpi=noirq to my grub config.

Now with Linux i got the sound,network,webcam and card reader all working out of the box,and for getting the drivers for nvidia card and wireless i just had to do two clicks in the "Hardware drivers" application.

This is a example of how much Linux has improved,hardware is better supported than ever,kde 4.1 looks amazing(still some funky bug with the systray).

i am really happy going back to Linux.

There is a bunch of people in the internet saying that JavaScript is the new Assembly(in the sense that developers shouldn`t write JavaScript directly and instead use some sort of compiler like GWT).

I totally disagree with that,first of all i think JavaScript is a great language,it is dynamic and have a compact syntax.

The reason that most of the people don`t use Assembly is that there is no benefit in speed compared to the time it takes you to write the same code in C or even in higher level languages. JavaScript is a really high level language with a few quirks,i admit,but even with it quirks there is no reason to use another language and then compile it to JavaScript.

A better approach to working around those quirks(both of the language and the browser) is using a library like: jQuery,Mootools(there are more but those are my favorites),using JavaScript libraries makes working with JavaScript and the browser really a fun and productive thing. You get all those things that you get with GWT:classes,clean api,good organization of code(for example with dojo).

So i still don`t understand why people are using stuff as GWT,Script#,pyjamas and Ra-Ajax. Is it because they don`t want to learn a new language? is it because they are accustomed to having a compiler checking all those small mistakes? because of those cool widgets that come with them?

Just my 2 cent rant,it is 2008 - no one should fear from JavaScript.