Openwire Python Client for ActiveMQ

Wow, I can't believe I missed it. Python lovers rejoice! Seems some good folks have created a python client for ActiveMQ which is using the very robust ActiveMQ C++ client.

And for those of you on Ubuntu, Dejan Bosanac has put together an excellent guide on how to build it on ubuntu.

Jansi - Bringing ANSI Support to Java on Windows

Last weekend I got a little spare time an through together a small little library while should help with the problem of boring Java console applications on Windows.

It's called Jansi and it provides support for using ANSI escape sequences in your Java console applications on Windows.

With ANSI escape sequences, you can fully control the the cursor positioning and the foreground and background color of the console text output. Here is quick example of what's posssible: