If you want to do some new years skills updates then check out the latest deal at Packt.  From 17th December 2015 into the New Year, Packt Publishing is inviting the tech world to explore its extensive library of eBooks and Video courses for one amazing price. Every single eBook and Video course Packt has ever created will be available on packtpub.com for just $5!

Great time to pick up a copy of Instant Apache ActiveMQ Application development.

Packt Free Learning Forever event

Packt Free Learning Forever event is on, check it out.  Great way to get some really good books to expand your library and learn some useful new skills. 

Packt Day Against DRM sale returns

This year, to demonstrate their continuing support for Day Against DRM, Packt is offering all its DRM-free content at $10for 24 hours only on May 6^th – with more than 3000 eBooks and 100 Videos available across the publisher’s website www.packtpub.com,

You can take advantage of this sale to get an eBook copy of Instant Apache ActiveMQ Application development along with the upcoming Apache Camel cookbook.

Packt’s $5 eBonanza returns

The $5 eBook Bonanza has returned, view the details here! Treat yourself to the eBook or Video of your choice for just $5 and get as many as you like until January 6th 2015.  This is a great time to add to your personal library and start learning some new tech skills.  Its also a great time to grab a copy of my ActiveMQ book at Packt.

Coming in ActiveMQ v5.11 In-Memory Scheduler Store

Up to this point your only option for doing scheduled message delivery in ActiveMQ required that you start a broker with persistence enabled.  Well, that's not entirely true, if you wanted to apply some configuration magic and start a broker in non-persistent mode and add an instantiated version of the KahaDB based JobSchedulerStore you could but that's not really ideal when you don't really need or want full persistence such as during unit tests or in some embedded cases. 

So from here on out if you want to use scheduled message dispatch but don't require the overhead of offline storage for your broker then just create a Broker instance that has persistence disabled and scheduler support enabled.

Here's an example of an embedded Broker that will use an in-memory scheduler:

        BrokerService answer = new BrokerService();
        answer.setPersistent(false);
        answer.setSchedulerSupport(true);

There's a lot more changes under the hood in the scheduled message bits coming in ActiveMQ 5.11.0 but I'll cover that in another post.

ActiveMQ-CPP v3.8.3 Released

Its been awhile since the last time we released a new version of ActiveMQ-CPP so I pleased to announce that version 3.8.3 is now out.  This release is a bug fix release that addresses some threading issues in the ConnectionAudit class as well as some enhancements to the SSL code to allow for finding the domain name of the broker in a Certificate that has multiple CN values. 

The release page has all the details so head on over and download the new release. 

This month marks 10 years since Packt embarked on their mission to deliver effective learning and information services to IT professionals. To celebrate this huge milestone, they are offering ALL of their eBooks and Videos at just $10 each for 10 days – this promotion covers every title and you can stock up on as many copies as you like until July 5th.

This would be a great time to pick up a copy of my book 'Instant Apache ActiveMQ Messaging Application Development How-To' for just $10.