Re: Turtles all the way down (or how I learned to love math in computing)

2009-08-05 Thread dha...@fortybeans.com
Yes, yes and yes. Maybe. ;-) I very much like the idea of having an elegant event-handling framework at the heart of ESME. However, it is also critically important that what we deliver to users does not require them to understand this. By analogy: Access is based on SQL and the whole

Re: Turtles all the way down (or how I learned to love math in computing)

2009-08-05 Thread Vassil Dichev
David, Holy tortoise, what have I started? Seriously, this is very interesting because ESME's focus for a while has been on interactions where one endpoint is not necessarily a human, and in processing these interactions. The formula of events and rules for processing them provides ultimate power

Re: Stats code

2009-08-05 Thread Vassil Dichev
Thanks Andy, this looks like an efficient use of an external library. I just heard of stevej's library because it's used in Jonas Boner's new Akka actors library. I need to take a look into scala-stats and see what else we can use from this library. Incidentally, I'm also writing an actor for

Re: Turtles all the way down (or how I learned to love math in computing)

2009-08-05 Thread David Pollak
Darren, I fully agree with you. I have no plans to make ESME harder to use. At its core, it's a micro-messaging system. On the other hand, I do want to make it easier for people who are not Scala developers with access to the ESME source code to build applications on top of ESME. I view this

Re: Turtles all the way down (or how I learned to love math in computing)

2009-08-05 Thread David Pollak
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Vassil Dichev vdic...@apache.org wrote: Darren, I fully agree with you. I have no plans to make ESME harder to use. At its core, it's a micro-messaging system. On the other hand, I do want to make it easier for people who are not Scala developers with

Re: Stats code

2009-08-05 Thread Andy the destroyer
Hi Vassil, If you look at the scala-stats library, you need to look at my fork of it on my git-hub account (http://github.com/andythedestroyer). I added some more stats and JMX functionality that ESME is using. I provided a link note in the pom section of the patch file. I am in contact with