If you're gonna be dumb then you gotta be tough

[deflatermouse]

My constant prattling on about message queues has been going on for a while now.

Since then I've been looking long and hard at RabbitMQ and QPid, both of which look hella sexy and very, very promising.

However, at the moment both still don't quite pass my "as easy as memcached to set up test".

Given that I've been drinking with known both the

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[blech]

Tom has recently had a haircut, so it is now neither long nor girly.

Secondly, job queues are indeed very useful. I'm waiting to see if a web application framework comes along with one built in, since it seems like I get about a hundred lines of code into any given Flickr web application I want to write and then, blam, I need a job queue.

I suppose what I'm saying is "I r dum n lazy, can haz simpl job q pls?"

have you tried rabbit recently simon

[anonymous]

Hey Simon, cool post. If you have not looked at RabbitMQ recently please do because I'm not sure if it could get much easier to set up. The current packaging gets a lot of praise. Yes we want to make it better and better but we need to be told if things are missing.

Example (using Ruby on OSX) - http://playtype.net/past/2008/10/10/kickass_queuing_over_ruby_using_amqp/

Hope to see you next week!

Cheers, alexis

Re: have you tried rabbit recently simon

[deflatermouse]

It's actually not the installation that's really the problem per se - and don't get me wrong RabbitMQ has made that list I have with my non-existent girlfriend which says that I'm allowed to cheat on her with either Alyson Hannigan or RabbitMQ with no-recriminations aslong as she's allowed to do the same with Johnny Depp or LLVM.

It's actually more that - when you're starting out you tend to have a web framework and a database and that's it and installing Erlang and admining another daemon might be a step too far for the hobbyist. As you're well aware my thinkings on this are vague and hand-waving and mostly beer fuelled so if I'm less than clear then I promise to buy you a beer next week :)

Also Tom's updated his request and, having chatted with him I've got another post brewing.

[memetic_glutton]

It worries me that while we both have broadly the same job of "programmer", this post may as well have been written in Hindi for all I understood of it.

[deflatermouse]

Dude, have you ever read GDA?

"Attach the rain-volume to the camera, but align it to the ground"

"Render front faces and then back faces into two separate depth
buffers you can compute a thickness value per texel along the view
direction. If you then combined this with a captured environment cubemap
perhaps you could emulate subsurface scattering"

"Place rain sheets statically in the world and cull them with an
extremely close far-plane"

"Perhaps a simple incremental method for generating a bounding cone of
the animation keys might be worth trying. Using the initial bind
orientation of the joint as the starting "cone", for each animation key
determine if the joint lies within the current bounding cone."

"Potentially viable for lower-frequency gross shadowing with some
modification"

I mean hell, I've done this sort of stuff and occasionally that list sounds like someone ran a list of graphics terms through that Post Modern Essay generator.