Junebug and Nginx
I found two new applications today, Junebug (a wiki) and Nginx (a webserver).
So Junebug was discoverd through Redhanded but while I was trauling throught the installation section I stumbled up Nginx.
Having partially written a wiki (in Perl) myself, I am still amazed when I see a new/another wiki crop up. Junebug is based on the Camping Framework, another Ruby web framework.
I have been looking at Xavante (Lua Language) webserver just for technologies sake. There always seems to be more fringe applications and frameworks than one would imagine. I guess the thread I see from newer frameworks is a focus on simplicity, light footprint (memory, code base). Nginx is claiming a much smaller memory footprint that Apache, Lighttpd, et al when acting in a reverse proxy mode. Before today, I would not have known it existed.
Back to Junebug though, one great feature it has .. download and run. Embedded webserver, you don’t need the Apache or Nginx instructions. This is important to quickly get the feel for an application. The download and run is a great feature I also liked that Instiki has. Junebug looks like a great little wiki, but I always think I need a cross between a Wiki and a bookmarking service (like del.icio.us) .
They have a simple focus:
Junebug is a simple, clean, minimalist wiki intended for personal use.
All the regular features of Access Control, Page Versioning and DB backing (through SQLite).
I think it’s worth a bit more a a serious look.