DWScript binaries and downloads
As Google Code no longer allows downloads, I will incrementally relocate the DWScript downloads on this website.
The first of the new downloads is an updated binary installer for the DWS Web Server.
HTTP Redirection in DWSWebServer
Here is a small snippet to illustrate how you can perform a conditional HTTP 301 redirection in DWScript, and can serve as an illustration on serving “special” HTTP responses.
This is useful when a website is moved from one domain to another, but the server is not, ie. if both old and new domains are hosted by the same server.
BackgroundWorkers in DWScript
An utility that was added to the DWScript sample WebServer during the 4 TeraPixel Mandelbrot experiment is the BackgroundWorkers API.
This is a rather low-level threading facility that can work well with Global Queues to handle background tasks or serializing tasks.
Pascal vs Archetypal Enemy
Once upon a time, there was a war (in the developer meaning), between Pascal, and another language whose name begin with the V and B initials.
Well that war is over.
Pascal won, sometimes in 2010.
DataBasePool in DWScript
A recent addition to dwsDataBase is the DataBasePool static class.
As the names indicates, it facilitates pooling database connections from the script-side, while previously you had to rely on Delphi or driver-side pooling (or lack of).