Nanite agents now in daemon-kit

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 30, 2009

My recent love affair with AMQP & nanite has been quite a nice boost to daemon-kit. First it got a neat AMQP consumer generator, and today it got a nanite agent generator with sample actor. Here is how to get (…)

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Easy Ruby cronjobs with daemon-kit

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 28, 2009

I started conceptualizing and playing with a pet project called daemon-kit earlier this year, with the aim to ultimately be the preferred way of assembling daemon processes written in Ruby. Today I took the opportunity to add two more generators (…)

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Ruby Enterprise Edition on Gentoo with newer OpenSSL (>0.9.8i)

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 21, 2009

UPDATE 2009-04022: Ruby Enterprise Edition 20090421 released a couple of hours after the original post. Now includes the OpenSSL patch from Gentoo’s Portage. UPDATE: The upcoming release of Ruby Enterprise Edition might include the suggested patch, if we get enough (…)

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To AMQP or to XMPP, that is the question

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 19, 2009

Some time ago I started a series of blog posts [1,2] on Ruby and messaging. Most of the series is still in draft format and has to be completed. It’s a topic I’ve been very interested for some time, and (…)

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