TinoQ is a deamon and tool to create and manage general queues of data.
It's designed to be easy to use, easy to understand, easy to manage and
easy to create new tasks with it which parallely process and queue data.
The most important features are the intrinsic capabilities to handle
error states gracefully and to continue work right from the place where
it was stopped, with an absolute minimum of additional overhead.

Queuing is a key technology, made easy with TinoQ (in short: tq).
It's currently in the planning state and will be designed to be able
to handle "unlimited" amounts of data efficiently.

Examples what can be implemented with TinoQ with a low effort and high
maintainability are lightweight (As low impact to the other site as
possible) crawler or mirror jobs, or things like a looking glass,
anything which needs a controlled batch like processing today.
Currently support for "output progress" is missing, so you have to
use 'tail -f' or something like <A HREF=tool.php?tool=ptybuffer>ptybuffer</A> for this.

My major goal is to replace the SMTP deamon with it's help some far time
in future, and to replace all sorts of cron/at jobs with it, while making
life easier and gain a better control.

In an even more distant future this shall become platform independent,
networked and universally usable for everything you might imagine:
Fully control remote computers as a replacement of a remote shell,
incorporate remote data transfer for purposes like copy or backup,
provide abstracted interprocess communication endpoints, so the
processes don't know how to reach each other, etc.  All this while
it stays easy to understand, easy to use and easy to manage.
Note that all this will be brougth to you by The Grid, TinoQ will
only be one tool to access it without bothering about details.