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Re: [mxug:909] Re: can anyone comment (_from experience_) on ActiveMQ/OpenWire vs RabbitMQ/AMQP ??

2009-12-02T10:26:02Z

Thanks Rob

That's very useful to know

(and looks like you know a bit about it all ;)

[link]

cheers
O.K.

Re: can anyone comment (_from experience_) on ActiveMQ/OpenWire vs RabbitMQ/AMQP ??

2009-12-02T09:56:18Z

Hi Paul,

sorry to nitpick - I actually wrote most of ActiveMQ while it was
still a codehaus - and have stayed active in the project since it has
been at apache - see the stats - [link]
;)

cheers,

Rob

Re: can anyone comment (_from experience_) on ActiveMQ/OpenWire vs RabbitMQ/AMQP ??

2009-12-02T09:50:31Z

I think OpenWire is seen as being too tied to ActiveMQ for the folks
behind AMQP. The most successful wire protocol to date IMHO opinion is
STOMP, because it has been adopted by already existing message
brokers, like Sun's OpenMQ as well as RabbitMQ - where AMQP pushes too
much semantics on to the broker implementation for existing brokers to

Re: [mxug:907] Re: extend your VPS with cheap disk from elsewhere...

2009-12-01T14:32:14Z

Thanks Dan. I wrote it up here [link] which is
linked from my homepage.
Another somewhat useful thing you can do with a loop mount - you can create a
whole lot of temporary files (e.g. a build) in a temporary file system, and
delete them in a single operation. Depending on the filesystem and OS, this

Re: [mxug:906] extend your VPS with cheap disk from elsewhere...

2009-12-01T01:05:17Z

Great! I'll be spreading that one around... might blog it too (and give
credit of course ;-) )

2009/12/1 Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net>

extend your VPS with cheap disk from elsewhere...

2009-11-30T16:21:58Z

I have a small VPS that costs me $11 / month, it has only 10GB disk. So today
I mounted another 10GB from a different server onto it, I was going to use 9p
but it turns out to be fairly slow, so I tried sshfs, which is extremely fast
(aggressive caching / preloading I guess). Finally what I did is create a

help test an internet pair-programming tool I wrote

2009-11-27T11:12:06Z

hi mxug ppls,
I need some help to test a tool I wrote for pair-progamming over the Internet.
It only works on Linux (prefer Debian/Ubuntu) at the moment, so ideally I'd
like to test it with another Debian/Ubuntu user for starters. It just makes it
easier to install the deps and I'm more confident it's likely to actually work.

Re: wondering how my data mining talk was received....

2009-11-25T03:58:34Z

I thought you were a v good presenter, speaking clearly and at a good
pace. Slides were very clear and to the point, and very illustrative
of what you were
talking about.

Personally I would have enjoyed hearing about a few real-world usages,
but maybe that is something for another talk?

-a

Re: [mxug:786] Re: mxug without mark

2009-11-24T04:32:07Z

a fairly trivial solution is just to listen to only one headphone when
programming with a friend. id like to think any competent person can then
adjust the volume depending on the level of interaction needed.
- Korny

Re: [mxug:899] Re: december meeting

2009-11-23T12:36:00Z

Maybe just a pub get together in place of the regular tech talks at TW. Same
bat time (6:30ish on Wed Dec 16th), same bat pub (Sherlock Holmes, Collins
St)

2009/11/23 Glen Maddern <gle...@gmail.com>

Re: [mxug:891] Re: Pragmatic Programmer books

2009-11-23T10:10:25Z

of course the *real* augmented reality future is contact lenses :
[link]

- Korny

--
Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com
kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave [link]
"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part

Re: [mxug:891] Re: Pragmatic Programmer books

2009-11-23T07:46:06Z

Great list - I'm not sure whether to get the Ruby Metaprogramming
book, or the screencast. I rarely get a seat on the train, so books
are more readable than screencasts. (I should check to see if they
look OK on my phone though - it's got a decent screen, so might handle
a screencast better than my iPod did...)

Re: [mxug:897] Re: december meeting

2009-11-23T06:33:26Z

I think I'll be out of town in either case, so I'd prefer if we delayed the
next meet until January. It'd be a pain to miss out on all the cool topics
and nerdy banter one month, eh Mark?

-glen.

--
Glen Maddern
0423 118 405

Re: wondering how my data mining talk was received....

2009-11-22T12:39:00Z

fair call. i was thinking there was so much to cover that there was no
time for any intro!
but having said that i finished in only 10mins so my timing was
shocking anyway.
mat

Re: [mxug:896] Re: december meeting

2009-11-22T09:52:27Z

I enjoyed this Nov meeting, my first, so I'm in favor of another one in Dec,
even if it's a bit smaller. or just meeting up.
Sam