Another useful little program: Port-Project

[elfs]

I always have a half-dozen web projects going on at any moment, most of them on my laptop. I often forget where they are, virtually. "Is Omaha's first project on port 8101 or 8103? Where is Oxymoron run from? What about Kafka?"

I mean, the actual projects themselves are in my /projects folder, but since I run a lot of them out of Apache, it's hard for me to keep track of what port does what.

Since I've been studying a lot of interesting technologies like Coffeescript and Node, I wrote a little tool to probe all of the ports and show me the title that comes back: Port/Project.

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be easier to keep a list of projects/links on 80 on your box? One line per project, probably wouldn't change too often.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

... probably wouldn't change too often.

They change all the time. Last week there were two changes: I added a Diaspora instance, and a new project of Omaha's. I make a good habit of setting the titles on home pages, and when implementing REST-style APIs having a text/html response. I don't want to manage a list by hand. Therefore...

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

The list would, but do you change ports often once they're assigned? Anyway, granted it's a bit of a bear, AND it is an excuse for some cool programming. :)