Current Ideas
So today I did some more research for my new site. I into memcached and XMPP. You have to admit, for as much as the LiveJournal site is put down in the technology area on the web, they have some really cool technologies that were developed behind the scenes, memcached being one of them. Many people don’t even realise this, but memcached alone is used by many really large sites, such as sourceforge.net and slashdot.org. I will be using it in my new site as well, if things go as planned. (I haven’t messed with it on BSD yet)
XMPP is the really nice XML based protocol that Jabber uses. Not only does it allow secure remote logins, but it can be used from all over the place. To top that off, the actual XMPP or Jabberd doesn’t have to be open to the public pool, how Gtalk was when it first came out.
I REALLY like this protocal and I’m trying to find a nice implementation to play with. If I don’t find one, I will probably strip the JayantHTTPD code base and start reading the RFC for the protocol. Hopefully, I can get a server up and mod it to do authentication from a local database.
Either way, I’ll be playing with it from the web. My new site needs global accounts that can be accessed from around the internet, similar to OpenID. If I can keep this method fast and simple to work with, I’ll be extremely happy.
Oh, and in other news, I have a work-in-progress mockup of the new design for this slum. See it here. Let me know what you think!
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