This is a great read on the history and role of FastCGI given the rise and popularity of "CGI Frameworks", as the author calls them, like Rails, Django, and Zope. One of those rare entries where I learn a lot from each paragraph.

Why does this matter? Because these are large frameworks written in interpreted languages and using CGI (the other technology still supported everywhere that lets you tell the web server to run some code) you have to load the whole shebang from scratch ON EVERY REQUEST. Performance will be shit, trust me, and so for anything but development with these "megaframeworks" CGI is completely unfeasable. You need a way of getting all that code loaded into memory and have it stay persistent across requests. That's what you get with an Apache module, and that's what you get with FastCGI. The renewed interest in FastCGI is because suddenly PHP's assumed rule of the webdev roost has been called into question and now you have these compelling competing frameworks, written in competing languages, needing persistance on the web server and they're not going to get it with an Apache module.

Just poking fun at our bery own goal-scoring defender! All in all, its a great recognition of just how good Boswell can be if Bruce has brought him in for a look at training camp, after starting the 2005 season as an undrafted rookie with DC United. I hope this coming season that Nowak finds a way to get him more minutes on the field along with Erpen.

Boswell, 22, arrived at training camp in Carson, Calif., yesterday, joining United teammates Freddy Adu , Brian Carroll , Ben Olsen and Santino Quaranta .

It's a gray day here in Virginia, so this might cheer some of us up: Serenity Might Fly Again?

...the movie's sales on DVD, which came out on Dec. 20, are running neck-and-neck with the hit comedy Wedding Crashers, which bodes well for a possible Serenity sequel.