[zeromq-dev] Meetup in Chicago, Oct 20

[Chuck Remes]

Oops! I forgot to include a link to GTest (Google's C++ testing framework). 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-googletestingframework.html

Someone was considering writing unit tests for 0mq using GTest. Hopefully we see that work soon!

cr


On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Chuck Remes wrote:

> 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.
> 
> cr
> 
> 
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