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I’m very excited to announce that Mop 1.0 M1 has been released. Mop is one of those tools that you wish you have had years ago. Most of you probably have not heard of mop yet. Mop is:
… a small utility for executing Java programs which are stored as artifacts like jars or bundles in a Maven repository. MOP automatically deals with the following for you transitive dependencies downloading artifacts from remote repositories and caching them locally setting up your class path
It’s a wonderfully small download that weighs in at only 3.2 megs. Why don’t you try it out today?
For all of you who ran into issues with ActiveMQ 5.0.0 when running it in anger, I highly recommend you give the just released ActiveMQ 5.1.0 a try. This release focused focused on making the broker rock solid. It resolved several bugs which only reared their heads in high load situations. Memory leaks have been squashed and performance has even improved in several areas.
Even if you have not had seen any issues with your 5.0.0 installation, I’d highly recommend you upgrade to 5.1.0 to avoid running into some of the bugs that have been addressed in the release.
I have a younger brother-in-law that also went in to software development field, and he thinks that I’m the luckiest guy in the world since my day job is basically working on open source projects. Every once in a while he asks me, “How can I get more involved with open source?”.
I always say, just find a project that you like and start contributing to it. So far, not much has happened… So Jason, screw that “find a project” stuff.. How about you pick up this issue, and implement it? It’s a small little feature that lots of folks would find handy!
Since I hate to be dependent on 3rd party services and URLs, I moved my Blog URL to a URL that I own: http://hiramchirino.com
They funny thing is that blogspot wasted no time when I changed how I published my blog, and someone else snatched up my old blogbucket.blogspot.com url.
This just a quick post on why I’m going to start blogging.
I think that I get involved in many small projects, and sometimes I don’t get back some of the smaller ones. I may be deluding myself, but I’m hoping that If I post about it, one day I will re-read my blog and get back to projects that I had found interesting before. I also hope other folks may find some of these projects interesting and will help with them.