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Sam Newman's site, a Consultant at ThoughtWorks

Archive for ‘May, 2009’

I always had this blog to write, not to run a blog. I’ve written less and less over the last couple of years and part of this is down to the overhead of maintaining wordpress. My plan is to switch to a clean, hosted solution – and Tumblr is looking like what I want. I plan to migrate everything over ASAP, but ASAP is proving to be not quite as soon as I’d like.

The migration plan is looking like this:

  1. Setup blog.magpiebrain.com to point to my Tumblr blog
  2. Start posting there, not here
  3. Write a script to export my posts from here to Tumblr.
  4. Write a script to export my comments from here to Disqus.
  5. Setup permanent redirects from the old posts to the new home at Tumblr.
May 17, 2009

I knocked this up to help testing on something I’ve been working on in my spare time. It would be a trivial exercise to extend this to build pages for specific URLs – this example returns the same markup for any example. The old codehaus site for Jetty contain lots of examples of how to configure an embedded server.

import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse
import scala.xml.Elem

class HttpServer {

  val handler = new MutableHandler()

  def run(port: Int) = {
    val server = new Server(port)
    server.setHandler(handler)
    server.start()
  }

  def updateHtml(html: Elem) = {
    handler.html = html
  }
}

protected class MutableHandler extends AbstractHandler {
  var html = <h1>Hello</h1>

  override def handle(target: String, request: HttpServletRequest, response: HttpServletResponse) = {
    response.setContentType("text/html");
    response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
    response.getWriter().println(html.toString());
    (request.asInstanceOf[Request]).setHandled(true);
  }
}
May 16, 2009