Frank Carver's Punch Barrel » messaging http://blog.punchbarrel.com Frank Carver's musings about software and life Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:58:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Frank Carver's Punch Barrel 2010 frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver's Punch Barrel) frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver's Punch Barrel) 1440 http://punchbarrel.com/images/punchbarrel-144.jpg Frank Carver's Punch Barrel http://blog.punchbarrel.com 144 144 Frank Carver's musings about software and life Frank Carver's Punch Barrel Frank Carver's Punch Barrel frank.carver@googlemail.com no no Kilim – efficient java internal messaging http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2009/02/15/kilim-efficient-java-internal-messaging/ http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2009/02/15/kilim-efficient-java-internal-messaging/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:48:07 +0000 Frank http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=1005 The internal messaging model used for concurrency in languages such as Erlang and Scala is undoubtedly compelling. Every time I try I get frustrated, though. I’m simply more comfortable with java. With this in mind I’m very interested in Kilim, which claims to provide a similar model usable directly from java, and with better performance than Scala.

Kilim

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Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots | Epicenter from Wired.com.

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I tend to agree with the author that a JEE “profile” with servlets, messaging (JMS) and transaction management would be a very useful idea, though. Despite the improvements and the hype I still have not found a compelling use for EJB other than a brief flirtation with message-driven beans

A Brief Overview of Java EE 6

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Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon – washingtonpost.com

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InfoQ: Beyond Polling? Consider PubSub, Push and MOM

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Here’s an article about using Skype chat rooms for a kind of Virtual shared office space to improve communication in distributed teams.

Skype: The ultimate collaboration tool? | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET News.com

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One of my current concerns is the tension between perceived needs one the one hand for attribution, academic traceability and ownership of ones own words; and on the other hand for privacy. This is seen in sharpest relief in solicitations for academic surveys. Routinely such instruments come with a disclaimer pointing out that all answers will be anonymous. Well-structured surveys and questionnaires, though, often also contain a section for general comments and feedback. In most cases I do not want this to be anonymous – indeed I would rather it formed part of a dialogue between the researcher and subjects, allowing both to benefit, learn and develop.

I am considering taking up a habit of always adding my contact details to academic survey submissions to deliberately challenge the assumption that I wish to be an anonymous donor of information, and to encourage researchers to participate in a community of interest.

Some things I have read recently on associated topics include:

Mathemagenic » Blogging research: attribution and ownership of ideas

Read at Joe’s » Blog Archive » Personal Publishing

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nutrun » Blog Archive » Distributed programming with Jabber and EventMachine

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