We’ve created some tools to help ourselves out with development. Here are 2 that we hope you’ll find useful:

ssync — A file system mirroring tool

ssync is a linux command line tool that copies a filesystem as efficently as possible, trying to minimize both disk input/output and preserve space. It keeps incremental versions available and hard-links them so as not to duplicate space.

Download ssync

httpd-stat — Access Apache’s server-status

httpd-stat works with apache 1 and apache 2 and reads the shared memory segment directly to access the status info. Useful if apache is overloaded or no free connections.

Download httpd-stat

Check back at our Tools page as we’ll be expanding it with more interesting tools in the near future!

Normally we would regale you with tales of new happenings, new employees, and new services, but this year we feel we’d best keep it old fashioned:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/seasons-greetings-1996/

Thank you for your continued support, and from all of us at Gossamer Threads, we wish you the warmest holidays and a fantastic new year.

I don’t know what things are like in your country, by here in Canada, our Public Health Agency is constantly on our cases about “accumulating” (as they like to put it) 30-60 minutes of physical activity each day.

So, this past summer we decided to take advantage of GT’s natural geography (the 5th floor), and hosted a stair climbing challenge. We determined that the height of our floor from the street was 1/465th the height of Mt. Everest, and devised a tracking poster to measure this ascent in individual treks up to the 5th floor.

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If you’re reading this, you’ve probably noticed that the Gossamer Threads site has undergone a major overhaul. We’ve been working behind the scenes on our new look for quite a while now, and we’re excited to finally have the chance to show it off.

Take a look around and let us know what you think!

On May 9, 13 members of the Gossamer Threads office participated in a longstanding Vancouver tradition that’s become a big part of office life here at GT: The Vancouver Sun Run!

And They’re Off!

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