Sometimes I don’t know what significance some news has, because the real significance isn’t to me, or to users like me, but to someone with very different needs or interests in the Nokia 770. Hence I submit these items, understanding they are likely of more interest to developers than users and that I cannot be a reliable scout for developers. Nonetheless . . .

Mohammad DAMT reported a few days ago that he had ported the lightweight Cherokee web server to the Nokia 770, posting the above picture indicating his success.

“What is this Cherokee?” you may well ask. Its website advises us that:

Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.

Perhaps we’ll see wiki-like apps for individual use implement Cherokee.

And Wirelexsoft announced its beta version of the VistaMax IDE for Maemo. This IDE is based on Eclipse and offers an alternative to using Scratchbox to develop and compile applications for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.

Also, the first Maemo version of Tclkit is out. Tclkit is “a compact, single file executable containing a complete scripting runtime, including a rich scripting language (Tcl), a high-level GUI toolkit (Tk), a powerful object system (IncrTcl), the Tcl Virtual File System (TclVFS), and an embedded high-performance database (Metakit).” Does that mean we will start to see apps written in Python or Tcl with GUI frontends based on Tk? (Oops, out of my depth now. Anyone?)

Well, the website advises: “Need Tcl/Tk on your machine? Tclkit is the fastest and easiest way to get it there. There is no installation involved.” Sounds good to me.

Download it: http://www.kroc.tk/tclkit/N770/tclkit.gz