… which actually has got a limp, and as such is complete harmless…

Today saw the first ever pre-release of the new Aranha codebase — “The Ukranian hunting spider”. (Don’t pay too much attention to that wiki it’s somewhat out of date)

Special thanks go to Breno Leitão for translating the release tagline into pt_BR: A aranha siberiana tem pernas boas, tem bom dia, pode capturar insetos, fazer teia, pegar insetos para a familia – Eu não posso fazer nada

Aranha is a FastCGI responder based on the Lua programming language and is under heavy development. The language has been extended and some important features have been added including a class system, docstrings on functions and tables, list comprehension and flexible string formatting.

I encourage you to get a copy and have a good play. You can find a tarball to download here so the only excuse is not knowing how to configure your webserver to have a fastcgi responder.

On the 18/19 June, Wilburton in Cambridgeshire will be having a small beer festival. If you enjoy a nice pint or five, in a convivial and familial setting, and you can join us in Wilburton then do come and say hello and grab a drink and some snacks. I am prepared to give people lifts from Cambridge, but they’d better be intending to sleep on the floor in my house and be prepared to be collected at a not unreasonable hour on Saturday (E.g. midday or so).

Let me know if you’re planning on showing your face so I can organise the logistics of what ferrying around of people I will be doing. I have put a wiki page up, update that as needed.