WabbitMQ runs too

Off to a good start this morning;I set up a Clojure spike using WabbitMQ and got a simple test running in a few minutes. Now I can link up my Python and Clojure components. Eeeeeeeexcelent.

Run, RabbitMQ, run Rabbit, run, run, run

I'm about to do some more work on Sknoman (a personal knowledge management application) and need to link together several disparate subsystems. Some are written in Python, but I'm developing one in clojure.

Nat Pryce speaks highly of RabbitMQ, so I decided to give it a try.

For reasons too boring to explain, I'm developing on a Ubuntu Lucid virtual machine. Lucid is almost as old as I am, so the packaged version of RabbitMQ is seriously out-of-date.

Once I'd installed an up-to-date version from the RabbitMQ Debian repo, I had the RabbitMQ Python send/receive example running in about five minutes. While that's hardly an exhaustive test, it's very reassuring.

I'll be trying a Clojure client next, but I'm hoping this is going to be painless.

PrecisionIR - great service, terrible software

PrecisionIR - how not to run a service

I've been using the free annual reports service provided by PrecisionIR. It's a great service; you can get hundreds - no, thousands - of free annual reports and daily updates about the companies that you are interested in.

Twice now PrecisionIR has emailed me a survey abut their service. They say it's a short survey, and it is.  Each time it's crashed on the second response.

The second time it happened I decided follow the advice in the error page and email support at PrecisionIR. The email bounced.

I guess they don't do a lot of testing.