Converting Mercurial To Git
Today I wanted to convert a Mercurial repository I was using to the git format so that I can put it onto Github. Previously I had used Tailor to perform a migration of a different repository from Monotone to Mercurial. When I tried this with git on OSX 10.5 however, I ran into a path issue with the git command. Whilst trying to debug this, I stumbled across the hg-to-git tool written by Stelian Pop, who wrote this tool for better branch handling. Because it saved me a lot of time that I would have spent trying to debug tailor, I've decided to make a record of how to use the converter for future reference.
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Server Side AS3
Today I was asked to present something at Osmosoft's Show And Tell gathering, so I decided to write a small summary of the presentation. I was asked to talk about something to do with RabbitMQ, make it hip by using Github and because Osmosoft created TiddlyWiki, it would be cool if it were something funky that could be self-contained within a browser. So I came up with the idea of turning a Flash player into a server, hence freeing AS3 from it's client side only image.
Introducing Shovel: An AMQP Relay
This article introduces a plugin component for the RabbitMQ broker that relays AMQP messages to a remote broker. The component is called Shovel and it is a deployed as an embedded message consumer on an instance of RabbitMQ. It receives messages from the broker running in the same address space and in turn relays them to a remote broker. The use case for Shovel is a scenario where a message producer sends messages over a high-speed LAN to a broker which then asynchronously relays them over a low-speed WAN to a destination broker.
Build Your Own AMQP Client
This article describes how to build your own client for the AMQP protocol. It is intended to give implementors an overview of the considerations that may influence design decisions in their target language. The article is a discussion of the AMQP protocol and the relevant touch points for implementing a client in a particular language.
OS X Key Mapping
The 9 key on my Mac Book Pro died today right in time for a presentation that I need to use it for. It would have been a lot of effort to install all of the bits and pieces that I required for the presentation onto a different machine. The Apple Store in Regent Street told me that they couldn't just sell me a replacement keyboard and that I would have to make an appointment for a Genius Bar session for them to replace it for me. Considering that this was not going to happen today, I decided to just remap my keyboard so that I could sacrifice a useless key for the 9 and the open parenthesis that I need. Because this is easier said than done, I decided to describe how I did this in order to try and help anybody else who is pulling their hair out trying to remap the keyboard.
