crazy hacks with a side of shouting
OpenTN3270 is a free terminal emulator for connecting to mainframes that support IBM 3270 terminals. Major features include basic colors, adjustable screen and font sizes, and SSL support.
The emulator is a CLR library used by a front-end GUI. Source code for both is released under the GNU GPL.
More information (including source code and binary downloads) will come soon. This page is here to remind me.
Well, it’s official… I’m a geek. A few weeks ago I started writing an extension for the PHP runtime that provides bindings to libfuse. Back up a few months— I wrote a PHP script to screen-scrape the Trac web interface and allow me to grab source code to a project I’m working on.
My solution worked but it was pretty ugly. So I wondered if it would be better to implement a FUSE file system to do the same task. Unfortunately PHP didn’t have bindings for libfuse at the time. After several failed attempts at using SWIG to automagically generate an extension, I came to the harsh realization that if I wanted FUSE bindings I’d have to do it myself. I mean… how hard could it be?
It actually wasn’t too bad. I read a bunch of non-existent documentation on the Zend API and went to work on a prototype. It took me about a week, but I now have a working PHP extension. I’ve also since implemented TracFS to replace my ugly script.
TracFS is a mountable POSIX virtual file system that allows you to read a Subversion repository through the Trac web interface. Why is this useful? It’s not… unless you can’t access the repository directly, but can see the files in the source browser. Using rsync (or a similar tool), you can maintain a local copy of the repository contents.
TracFS uses FUSE for VFS operations and is written in PHP. It also supports authenticating with a Shibboleth SSO gateway. Other authentication mechanisms can be easily added in the future.