Super Simple Web Server

I needed to serve up some images on my computer from a different port. Mongoose is a super simple webserver. So creating a webserver to some static files is as simple as

mongoose -ports 9090

and you have webserver running on port 9090 serving up the content from whatever directory you're currently in.

Just go to

http://localhost:9090/

and there will be your content.

It can also run cgi bins and scripts so using a scripting language and some ajax libraries so you could build yourself some simple local apps in a pinch.