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:

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.

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?”.

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.