The article I wrote on ActiveMessaging is up – enjoy!
It includes the latest and greatest on how to get started using a13g.
New free toys!
Everyone can appreciate the Unix pipe concept, even if it was a slow start to get it added. It’s nice to see |s inspiring folks still, as with Yahoo pipes.
Did my own based on prx and flickr, give it a run.
I find it only works right about 50% of the time – seems [...]
I’m writing this w/o any prompting from the folks at Contegix, I ‘ve been just really pleased with these guys this week, and wanted to put a few kind words out there.
So we switched to Contegix not that long ago for prx, and I have to say, these guys are a class act. It’s [...]
I’ve been spending the last few days working with the AWS::S3 library.
Works well – we are streaming large audio files over it, so we needed something better than the ruby s3 bindings amazon released (though they are very clear in their code that they do not handle big files well).
Only hitch was setting metadata when [...]
Thanks to Brian McCallister, he put in the changes I mentioned.
This should make the changes to a13g cleaner, and we can now take advantage of having the reconnect wait time configurable.
All in all, it makes a13g closer to implementing a ‘reliable’ listening service.
There is one sorta ugly bit, the __old_receive method was a fine way [...]