sooo dum dee dum I head over to cherrypy download page and download the latest version which happens to be 3.2.1 as of now.

so like a kid opening his christmas gift I untar the archive and run


python setup.py install
File "setup.py", line 25
'wsgiserver2|ssl_pyopenssl' if python3 else 'wsgiserver3'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


I think cherrypy is dead. to pack a failure like this is pretty bad.

I try to download 3.2.0rc2 ... oh empty directory

ok lets try 3.2.0rc1 ... found something.... download

untar

python setup.py install
...

tada! it works...
but frankly this isnt getting cherrypy any points for uploading a broken package 9completely uninstallable) into their repo as so called stable fracking release. @the Devs of Cherrypy, when toasters show up at your doorstep you will remember this.

end of rant T_T

Yes its the title but this isnt a smackdown. The fact is beanstalkd was inspired from memcache. However memcache is considerably old and not very useful in many real world scenarios. That is why we have Queues. While memcahe could be made to behave as such it's far more complex and prone to programming error as compared to beanstalk. However if you are looking to deploy on the cloud and want a slimmer and faster Alternative to AMQP ( like RabbitMQ) then Beanstalkd is the way to go. Once you go Beanstalk you aren't going back to stock again.

Few useful resources that discuss and share example of AMPQ, beanstalk etc are as follows:

http://adam.heroku.com/past/2010/4/24/beanstalk_a_simple_and_fast_queueing_backend/

http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/10/12/beanstalkd-python-basic-tutorial/

For those interested in RabbitMQ and AMQP with PHP here is some helpful pointers

http://www.slideshare.net/old_sound/integrating-php-withrabbitmqzendcon

Thanks to all these authors for their contribution. The reason I share these and not the others because the Articles are right to the point instead of the self centric useless posts some people make before getting to the point (if there is any to make).

Please see my update below about CITREP claim process before you swipe your credit card

Singapore is awesome in some ways. I don't know of any other country where the state provides funding for technology certifications like this grant. CITREP Currently its modified as CITREP Enhanced so the governing body i.e. IDA has removed some certifications and also reduced the funding percentage. It used to be 80% for course fee (w00t) and 100% exam fee (w00t x 2).

Unfortunately, I could only make it for one certification by the time I got around to getting the upfront 100% payment in my pocket via credit card. Thanks to the funding I got ITILv3 certified for a few hundred bucks. I met a few people during ITILv3 who had got ALL good project management certifications exceeding 12,000$ in 80% funding days which ended 31st March 2011. That's what I get for sitting on my eyes with my ass closed (or something like that).

ITIL foundation is damn easy. I got my course and exam done at NTUC Learning Hub Bras Basah Road. It was tough to go everyday after work from 7 pm to 10:30 pm and return home by 12 AM or so for 2 weeks. The class timings and schedule vary according to size and availability of Trainers. It was completely theoretical and the lecturer was awesome and experienced. He explained the concepts clearly and also provided good tips on exam taking. I burned them to brain and aced the exam only 2 days after the course with 95% score. Yep! that easy. A dumb guy like me finished the exam in 15 mins with 95% score with only about 2 hours of dry run after the course. ( I tried to study but counter strike deathmatches are hard to ignore)

I hear PMP and Six Sigma are also easy. But I don't like theory too much. I did that a lot in college already.

In the current Citrep-enhanced scheme the course choices are limited and very few actually qualify (PMP is still in) and the funding is lower between 50% - 70% at most (details in link above). Still quite great considering you can save as much as 2000$-3000$ on every certification you get! Unfortunately the really good technical courses like VMWare Vsphere for advanced folks (which are actually cloud computing related and cloud is covered by the new CITREP scheme) are not part of the scheme as they don't have a real exam (one criteria for course to be considered for funding). I have written to IDA to consider such advanced technical courses, let's hope the funding goes on and covers more advanced high level subjects. For everything else there is ..... FT.



UPDATE: The claim process is very very flawed and doe snot help the candidate at all. After sending in all the documents including test results and certificate (which takes additional 2-3 weeks after exam) they replied to me [the IDA claims] and asked for a missing course completion certificate. I am sure I sent it but never mind I emailed the same to the on the same day. That was June 9th 2011. I was then informed that I will be sent an approval email as they have forwarded it for "FURTHER APPROVAL". Now it's 1st of July and I have not heard from them yet. I was told that "AFTER APPROVAL" email it will be another 3 weeks at least before I get a cashier's order for the bloody 80% of the funding promised. I gave my exam immediately after course completion to be sure that I don't have to bear the frackin credit card interest too long. That was in April ( I started my course end of march and finished second week of april, the following monday I cleared the test).

So to be safe set aside 6 months to get your money and dont sign up for anything else if you're cash strapped. You will just dig yourself a huge hole, the CITREP will just lend you a finger to push you into it. Lol. So much for the funding and crap. Well lesson learnt. I just have to make someone pay me back for this one way or another.