Almost 10 years ago I sat in on a sales pitch that Netscape was giving to the Virginia Department of Transportation promoting LiveWire. Now it seems there is a revolution going on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript even John is doing it http://ejohn.org/blog/bringing-the-browser-to-the-server/
Thanks for the share, I don't have a use for it right now, but it is something I could see using in the future... -wade On Jul 19, 2:21 pm, "Scottus " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a what feels like a long time Jquery user. I would like to > introduce to you a very useful from my tool box. The tools is call > Pow (Plain old Webserver). Its a cross platform web server that is a > 63k Firefox plug in. > > Since its a full featured web server you can work locally on all of > your dynamic websites. Many browser features like cookies don't work > from file:// urls will now work by using Pow. In addition to being > able to serve html and another static files. Your can create cgi's > using javascript as your server side programming language. Pow also > comes with a SQL database (sqlite) for database driven sites. > > If you are looking into Adobe Air for desktop development you can get > more bang for your buck with Pow which is open source. David Kellog > the developer is very responsive with bug fixes and new feature > requests > > Pow also comes as stand alone web server that is cross platform than > can runs off of a pen drive. So if you are like me you can use the > same server and data on your mac at home and on you windows machine at > work. > > Downloadhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3002 > Docs - Wikihttp://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page > User Grouphttp://groups.google.com/group/firefoxpow > > Anyway thanks for you time and give Pow a spin. You wont be disappointed. > > -- > Scott Wickham > > ******************************************************************************************** > Everyone is equal and everyone is the best at everything. --- > Principal Skinner > > "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking > they can't lose." -Bill Gates > > 99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity > isn't coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The > hard part is actually executing the thing you've thought of. -- seth > godin > > ********************************************************************************************
