Testing Brotli compression

What is it?

It's another compression, emphasis on use for HTTP compression.

Please note that I just wanted to test it on my Windows machine for fun, not to prove whether it's better or worse than other compression algorithms.

Source Code


Binaries for Windows: 

• from cran.r-project.org
• Someone compiled it  -- He also wrote a blog page here. 

I tested this file: sqlite3.exe (size: 488,960 bytes).

C:\bin>brotli --in sqlite3.exe --out test.br

and with 7zip:

C:\bin>7z a -t7z test.7z sqlite3.exe

And the result:

219,905 -- test.7z
238,039 -- test.br


RESOURCE

• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/10/next-generation-server-compression-with-brotli/
• https://textslashplain.com/2015/09/10/brotli/

IPython-Jupyter on Windows

What is it?

Install on Windows

1. install python first
2. pip install jupyter

Start Jupyter

1. move to jupyter notebook folder.
   e.g.) C:\> cd notebook
2. type in: jupyter notebook

Configuration

• Generate configuration file:
  jupyter notebook --generate-config
  
  This will generate file as: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\.jupyter\jupyter_notebook_config.py
• Change default notebook directory:
  e.g.) edit the configuration file entry:
  c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = u'D:/dev/code/workspace.jupyter'

"Pin to Start"

Once it's all installed and customized, to run it, you need to open cmd.exe then type in "jupyter notebook".  Simple batch file like this will help:

e.g.) "jupyter.bat"
@echo off
start "Jupyter Console" "C:\opt\Python27\Scripts\jupyter.exe" notebook

However, you can't add batch file to Windows 10's Start menu.  I converted this batch file with an icon to an executable file using "Bat To Exe" (see link below).  Once it's compiled, add to Win 10's Start menu.  For icon files, google it: https://www.google.com/#newwindow=1&q=jupyter+filetype:ico

This batch file will still leave command window open -- it's preferable as I can stop Jupyter process with CTRL-C.

RESOURCES

• Windows 64 bit Python modules
• Jupyter command line options
• http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html
• Batch to Exe, http://www.f2ko.de/en/b2e.php