Playing around with inotify

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]

Marcus Povey

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]

Traffic reports using twitter as a data source

Following on from my post yesterday, I would like to introduce something I quickly hacked together to show how the kind of thing I was talking about might work. As discussed in yesterday’s article, I already use twitter to provide a data feed for selective traffic alerts. Street Level URLs provides a simple wrapper around […]

Marcus Povey

Following on from my post yesterday, I would like to introduce something I quickly hacked together to show how the kind of thing I was talking about might work. As discussed in yesterday’s article, I already use twitter to provide a data feed for selective traffic alerts. Street Level URLs provides a simple wrapper around […]