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+# Skeeter for Go
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+This is a port of [skeeter](http://github.com/blakesmith/skeeter) to Go.
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+## Why?
+
+The original skeeter implementation was built with ZeroMQ in Ruby and had seperate processes for each piece. Ensuring all the pieces were behaving correctly became a hassle, so I ported it to Go to get familiar with the net/http library in Go.
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+## Dependencies
+
+See [Native Dependencies](https://github.com/blakesmith/skeeter#native-dependencies) from [skeeter](http://github.com/blakesmith/skeeter)
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+## Building
+
+[Install Go](http://golang.org/doc/install)
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+Then run ```go run skeeter.go``` from within the skeeter directory.
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+To cross compile for linux 386 from OS X, I followed this wiki page to setup the compiler toolchain: http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/WindowsCrossCompiling
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+Once that's setup, I ran:
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+```
+CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 go build skeeter.go
+```
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+This generates the ```skeeter-go``` binary, which you run to start the web server.
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+## The Future
+
+With the present design, ```curl``` ```convert``` and ```jp2a``` are used to process the image. I'd like to convert these to native Go code.
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+## Author
+
+Skeeter is written by Blake Smith <[email protected]>.
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skeeter.go

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 func main() {
 	http.HandleFunc("/", imageHandler)
-	http.ListenAndServe(":9000", nil)
+	http.ListenAndServe(":9001", nil)
 }