[zeromq-dev] Meetup in Chicago, Oct 20

[Chuck Remes]

We had a great meetup last night! There were 9 of us who got together at Orsos, had some great food, plenty of drinks, too many laughs and a lot of excellent conversation.

First, I'd like to thank Matt Griswold for sponsoring & hosting the evening. Thank you thank you thank you.

Next, I thought I would put together a few links (which I'll also post to the wiki page) pointing to a few of the things we talked about last night. I couldn't hear everything at the table, so these are the items I remember.

* Celluloid (Ruby Actors)

https://github.com/tarcieri/celluloid

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/09/object-oriented-concurrency-deep-dive.html  (and others)


* Lua

http://www.lua.org/


* Zed Shaw

If you want to see the rant between Pieter & Zed, look at Pieter's twitter messages from Aug 22, 2011.

Also, a fine reddit thread where Zed got pissed and created his own competitor to 0mq. He basically wrote it in a day or two, released it, and never touched it again. Note the dates on this git repository and the date of the Pieter/Zed twitter smackdown. :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jq77w/zed_shaw_the_petrichor_protocol_primitives/


* Pieter Hintjens

http://unprotocols.org/blog:17

(His book)
http://softwareandsilicon.com/


* Pauseless GC in Java

Great interview... links to the whitepaper that gives the technical details:

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/click-gc-azul


* FIX & FIX/FAST

quickfast.org/

http://www.openfast.org/

http://quickfixengine.org/

(And when I push it, my Ruby FIX library will be here)
http://github.com/chuckremes/ruby-fix-api

Thank you to everyone who participated. We will probably do a quarterly meetup in Chicago going forward, so look for an announcement sometime in January 2012.

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