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Firebolt is a network protocol oriented library.

Our goal is to create a simple and well designed object oriented network library. We started this effort by being ourselves in the game developers position and facing the problem of lack of abstract enough libraries.

We dont want to make another socket abstraction framework we want to make a high level library that will be used to implement any protocol design you can think of. You can forget of socket details. Just design your server/client protocol and implement the states and events that the server and client will use. Then put your protocol logic into each state, define the possible transitions from state to state and thats it.

Among other features we will try putting our best design efforts in creating wraper code that will be used to minimize the effort to use Firebolt library in your already existing game project. It will blend with your games event system and transparently transport your game events over the network. Lets hope that we make it this far.

Also mysql server support will be available by Firebolt since databases are vital for modern online games.

Of course nothing can prevent use of Firebolt in non-game applications also, so dont worry.

This chapter serves as a gentle introduction to Maypole and setting up Maypole applications. We look at what Maypole is, how to get it up and running, and how to start thinking about building Maypole applications.

What is Maypole?

Presumably you have some idea of what Maypole is all about, or otherwise you wouldnt be reading this manual. But Maypole is good at many different things, and you may have accidentally focussed on one aspect of Maypole while missing the big picture.

For instance, you may know that Maypole is extremely good at putting web front-ends onto databases. This is true, but its only a part of what Maypole does. You may have heard that Maypole is a web application framework, which is true, but it doesnt mean very much. There are a huge number of things that Maypole can do, because its very much a blank slate. You can make it do what you will. In this manual, well be making it act as a front-end to a database, as a social network site, as an intranet portal, and many other things besides.It is a framework.

I like to think that Maypole is a way of going from a URL to a method call to some output. If you have a URL like /product/order/12, Maypole is a way of having it load up product number 12, call an order method, and produce a page about what its just done. The reason Maypole is such a big deal is because it does all this for you. You no longer have to care about your web server. You hardly have to care about your database. You dont have to care about templating modules, parsing CGI parameters, or anything else. You only need to care about business logic, and the business logic in this instance is how you order a product, and what you need to display about it once youve done so. This is what programming should be: only caring about the work that distinguishes one program from another.

It does this using a technique called MVC for web applications.

What is MVC for web applications?

Maypole was originally called Apache::MVC, reflecting its basis in the Model-View-Controller design pattern. (I had to change it firstly because Maypole isnt tied to Apache, and secondly because Apache::MVC is a really dull name.) Its the same design pattern that forms the foundation of similar projects in other languages, such as Javas Struts framework.

This design pattern is found primarily in graphical applications; the idea is that you have a Model class which represents and manipulates your data, a View class which is responsible for displaying that data to the user, and a Controller class which controls the other classes in response to events triggered by the user. This analogy doesnt correspond precisely to a web-based application, but we can take an important principle from it. As Template Toolkit author Andy Wardley explains:

What the MVC-for-the-web crowd are really trying to achieve is a clear
separation of concerns. Put your database code in one place, your
application code in another, your presentation code in a third place.
That way, you can chop and change different elements at will,
hopefully without affecting the other parts (depending on how well your
concerns are separated, of course). This is common sense and good practice.
MVC achieves this separation of concerns as a by-product of clearly
separating inputs (controls) and outputs (views).

This is what Maypole does. It has a number of database drivers, a number of front-end drivers and a number of templating presentation drivers. In common cases, Maypole provides precisely what you need for all of these areas, and you get to concentrate on writing just the business logic of your application. This is one of the reasons why Maypole lets you develop so rapidly: because most of the time, you dont need to do any development at all.

RABL (Reactive Autonomous Blackhole List ) server is a statistical, machine-automated and up-to-the-second blackhole list server designed to monitor global network activity and make decisions based on network spread and infection rate.
This is in contrast to how most other blacklists function, where humans (many with political agendas) must process thousands of reports and make decisions.
The RABL is fully reactive to new threats and can block addresses within seconds of widespread infection.
Addresses are blacklisted until they have cleared a minimum duration without any additional reports, making the appeals process as simple as "fix your junk".
It is designed to function via automated machine-learning spam filters such as Bayesian filters.
A client tool is also provided.
Main features:
- The ability to take advantage of your existing statistical filters and actually conserve resources on your network.
- Network your spam intelligence with hundreds of other large networks and ISPs
- Eliminate the need for human abuse reporting by keeping your system synced as a writer account
- Help facilitate change by rejecting hosts that are sending spam
- The short-term blacklisting approach (24 hours) is designed specifically around the dynamic nature of spammers, and as a result provides a way to blacklist new hosts within minutes, and not need worry about poorly maintained lists or delisting of obsolete networks.
- Finally a way to blacklist active and malicious dialup space only
- Freedom from the political agendas of human-run blacklists

Tigerbooks project is a online book exchange.

Tigerbooks is an online book exchange designed for individual universities and colleges.

Students can post books for sale or browse for books to buy. Fulltext and ISBN searches are available.

There are other book exchange systems currently available. However, TigerBooks is an open source solution.

This means that it is freely available to any University or College that wishes to use it for its own students. Furthermore, any University or College can make contributions to the TigerBooks thus distributing its maintenance costs.

Maintenance costs are particularly important in academic realms as students are only at their institutions for the duration of their program. Being an open source solution means the Universities and Colleges do not have to worry about who will be maintaining TigerBooks in the years to come.


TigerBooks is a successful open source project and will see greater success in the future as it is distributed amongst Universities and Colleges. It is successful really for two reasons.

The first being that is meets the needs of students in exchanging their textbooks. The second is that it is open source and consequently is maintained by the open source community.

PloneAtom provides Atom support for Plone.

This is a Plone product (that could probably be trivially modified for the CMF itself) which provides Atom support for Plone. Currently it provides the Atom syndication format for folderish objects, in the same way as RSS syndication is implemented.

Enabling Atom syndication

Atom syndication is enabled in exactly the same way as RSS syndication. To enable syndication on the site in general:

.Login as an admin user.

.Go to Plone Setup and choose Zope Management Interface

.Select the Properties tab in the portal_syndication tool.

.Click enable syndication. Then, to enable syndication support for a particular folderish object:

.Login as a user who has Owner/Manager permission for the folder.

.Surf to that folder and select the syndication tab.

.Click Enable syndication. Dont worry about the syndication options it gives you -- they are not used by atom (and ignored in most RSS clients, from what Ive seen).

Accountability Pal monitors your network and keeps track of who is using the Internet and what they are viewing, downloading, uploading, etc. It sends a email report of each users activity to the person/people you specify.
These days, more people are becoming addicted to viewing pornography on the Internet. Web sites offer free glimpses into enticing worlds of sexual immorality, and the anonymity that the Internet has to offer provides a way of indulging in those desires in the privacy of your own home without the worry of getting caught by their spouse or other loved ones. As a result, when the addiction is discovered by someone else, it often has such a devastating effect that families are destroyed as a result.
Thats where Accountability Pal comes in. Several of my friends have a passion for helping those with an addiction to porn, or they want to make sure their kids would not fall into that trap. Accountability Pal monitors your network and emails you, or others, reports of what everyone is viewing.
Enhancements:
- installer/accpal.nsi:
- Fixes to install all required dependencies on Windows.
- ChangeLog: Updated ChangeLog for version 0.1.1.
- configure.ac: Updated version to 0.1.1.
- installer/accpal.nsi:
- Updated installer to include all required files and to launch README.
- src/accpal.c: Added pause after ethernet interfaces are listed.
- README: Updated README to reflect Windows version.
- accpal.conf: Updated sample config file to reflect new options.
- src/accpal.h, src/apreport.c, src/common.c:
- added generation of Date header on emails.