The Blog: May 2011

I think it might be all the time I’m devoting to L.A. Noire which caused me to want to research how to test multiple Ruby versions and gemsets using RVM, but that’s besides the point. Here’s how I went about it.

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Agora has released a preview of Haigha, its new Python client for Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). AMQP is a standardized application protocol for messaging middleware. Its purpose is to govern the behavior of the messaging provider and receiver to facilitate interoperability between vendors.

Haigha is a descendant of py-amqplib, a common library used by the Python community. Haigha has been built from the ground up to use libevent for high performance IO while presenting a simple API that adheres to the form and function of the AMQP specification. It adds several useful features that simplify access to powerful AMQP idioms. By default, Haigha operates in a completely asynchronous mode, using callback-passing to trigger application code in response to AMQP events.

For more information and installation, visit: https://github.com/agoragames/haigha

Members of the Agora Production and QA team attended the first Kitware-sponsored Tech Valley Talks on Tuesday. Clarke Foley, Production Coordinator, and Devon Smith, QA Team Lead, represented Agora amongst a who’s-who of Tech Valley companies. Nicholas Ruepp, Producer at Vicarious Visions (VV), spoke about how the successful game studio adapted to the Agile Development process during the production of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 in 2007.

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