http://lethargy.org/~jesus/ Esoteric Curio - Theo's Contributions to Technological Surreality en Serendipity 1.4.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:50:03 GMT http://lethargy.org/~jesus/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://lethargy.org/~jesus/ 100 21 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-patriot#c22920 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-patriot#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=173 nospam@example.com (Cott) Well said. True patriotism these days is rather unpopular, thanks to decades of statist dogma and doublespeak as exemplified by the Patriot Act itself. http://www.campaignforliberty.com/ Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:26:48 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/173#c22920 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-patriot#c22919 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-patriot#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=173 nospam@example.com (Oh, him) And now, give your attention to the Digital Millennium Copyright ACT. Liberty, amongst other important principles, is embarrassed. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:37:01 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/173#c22919 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/death-by-icicle#c22916 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/death-by-icicle#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=172 nospam@example.com (Umar Farooq) Looks like you had an ice dam break: http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/housingandclothing/DK1068.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:56:08 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/172#c22916 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/death-by-icicle#c22913 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/death-by-icicle#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=172 nospam@example.com (Ask Bjørn Hansen) You should come move to California; that stuff doesn't happen here. :-) (not in the southern parts anyway...) - ask Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:39:57 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/172#c22913 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-seeks-data-management-experts;-a-new-type-of-dba#c22896 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-seeks-data-management-experts;-a-new-type-of-dba#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=168 nospam@example.com (tony) yes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:55:45 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/168#c22896 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql#c22894 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=169 nospam@example.com (John Apps) AMQP 0.10 would satisfy all the requirements I have read here: autonomous, distributed (XA) and so forth. No one has finished implementing it yet, but I think they are not too far away. I would be more than interested in the source as a friend and I have been thinking (and tinkinling) about doing something similar for Oracle Rdb. Great article, super blog: thank you! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May you get stuck in more airports... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:19:54 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/169#c22894 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql#c22893 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=169 nospam@example.com (Theo Schlossnagle) Even more than that. AMQP doesn't really support two-phase commit and it is further compounded by being asynchronous. If AMQP "goes away" after your last publish but before you commit on the postgres side, it will (obviously) not be able to commit to AMQP and PostgreSQL won't know. What's worse is that AMQP is asynchronous so you could think your last publish was success only because the failure notification hasn't made its way back to you — this is also a failure condition. The one thing that is guaranteed: if you rollback your postgres txn, nothing will go out over AMQP. BTW, thanks for the tips on where to hook in PostgreSQL. Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:28:06 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/169#c22893 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql#c22892 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=169 nospam@example.com (Heikki Linnakangas) Note that sending the message still isn't atomic with the database transaction. If you crash or connection to the queue is broken after the commit record in PostgreSQL has been written to disk, the message is not sent. Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:16:57 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/169#c22892 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-seeks-data-management-experts;-a-new-type-of-dba#c22891 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-seeks-data-management-experts;-a-new-type-of-dba#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=168 nospam@example.com (Nick Romero) "magical remembering device" That phrase can only have come trying to explain something to an insane client somewhere. I love it. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:00:21 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/168#c22891 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/jive-turkey#c22888 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/jive-turkey#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=167 nospam@example.com (Sean Coates) Are you sure you didn't partake in the free booze, and THEN the coding? (-: S Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:38:59 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/167#c22888 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#c22882 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=165 nospam@example.com (Theo Schlossnagle) I hear good things about Rhino. However, I'm embedding in C. Rhino is in Java, so like Jython and JRuby, I'd need to embed Java and then Rhino on top of that to use it. For Javascript I was referring to Spidermonkey. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:40:39 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/165#c22882 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#c22881 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=165 nospam@example.com (Konstantin) What JavaScript implementation are you talking about? There is more than one, and Rhino, for example, seems to allow use of Java's threading. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:00:59 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/165#c22881 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#c22880 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=165 nospam@example.com (dim) You are so fast to avoid lisp... I'd consider guile, plt-scheme, bigloo and/or elk/scheme48 maybe in this order too. In fact I will next year normally. As a user of 'awesome' (window manager) I really find lua ugly. And living in Emacs, lisp in my eyes is the perfect extension language to give your users! :) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:10:25 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/165#c22880 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#c22879 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=165 nospam@example.com (Joker) Greatings, Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:29:53 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/165#c22879 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#c22878 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=165 nospam@example.com (Theo Schlossnagle) Actually that was the point of my article. To often people embed to add the value of the language they are embedding. A language is just a language. If the host application is complex and powerful, it should be more about aligning the architecture of the two so that you don't paint yourself into a corner later. It's not just that MRI is ugly, it's that its poor architecture can burden (or flat our not align) with today's complex software architectures. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:36:10 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/165#c22878