This has nothing to do with computers, but as a Hard-Scifi lover I had to say something about it. I’ve just read that Arthur C. Clarke passed away today at the age of 90.

If you’ve read him (who hasn’t?) you’ll know why this saddens me. If not, here is some information about him and his legacy in case you care.

Here are Clarke’s three laws, probably his most famous quotations:

1. “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
2. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
3. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

A heartfelt goodbye to you, Sir. You will be missed.

As I anticipated some weeks ago, Cherokee 0.6.0 has finally been released. It was a couple of days ago but it caught me away and with no Internet access until now.

Anyway, the trunk was branched on March 6th and after some exhaustive testing and a little polishing here and there … here it is!!!

You should take a look at Alvaro’s site and at the official Cherokee Project’s website. Suffice it to say a lot of work has been put into the new release, and the effort has been well invested. Work will resume shortly to improve an already impressive web server, and as advancements are made towards 0.7 a lot of new features will be added. A fast look at the TODO file will give you an idea of what is yet to come: a bunch of new handlers and modules (WSGI, AJPv13, WebDAV, mod_evasive, upload progress module), generic caching, new header entry, AIO based fdpoll, memcached support, chunked encoding, Dtrace hooks, better language support…

As I said previously, stay tuned. You’ll be able to expect a lot from this project in the near future. That is a given ;)

UPDATE: I forgot to mention the most important thing. Here is the original announcement of the release at the official mailing list.