There’s a neat article about Twisted over at OnLamp.com. It gives the following snippet to make and run a Twisted web server:
$ mktap web --path=/var/www $ twistd -f web.tap
So I tried it out on Windows, and, amazingly, it Just Works. Definitely simpler than setting up IIS or Apache, once you find out what to do. Impressive.
I have a small server application in mind, and I’ll definitely be giving Twisted a try.
Over on Slashdot, someone wrote that they had $7000 dollars, wanted to spend it providing Internet access to his neighbours and asked for advice on how to do it.
This discussion quickly turned to ethics. Some hold that giving away this amount of money is a waste – that it is somehow stupid to be so generous. Others thought that, if this guy was going to be generous like this, then there are more worthy causes than Internet access.
I wonder why this topic provokes such strong reactions.