Comments for Jakub Korab

Comment on Mezzo D9 Folding Bike Review by Sam

Sam — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:39:19 +0000

Jusr read your review of the Mezzo D9. A couple of points: if the brakes were wearing unevenly it’s a moments work to adjust the dual pivot caliper position screw. The rim tape on the Mezzo is a standard butyl rubber type also used on a large majority of folding bike and road bikes.If you’ve done more tyre changes than an F1 team you’ve either done a huge mileage or you’ve run underinflated. You don’t specify the mileage you’ve done, nor the point/mileage when the original tyres ‘failed’ or the running pressures of the tyres. The Mezzo stock tyres run at 85 psi which can be hard to achieve with a hand pump, and the tendency is thus to run underflated.

Schwalbe Marathon tyres, the usual replacement for commuter bikes, are £15 each or less, not the £35 you quote. Schwalbe Kojak high pressure slicks are currently £9 each.

The remark that ‘small wheels mean you pedal twice as far’ is not the case. The gear range on the Mezzo is similar to that of many single speed road bikes and pedaling cadence is also similar. Later bikes have a 54T front and an 11-26T rear which provides 78″ inches at the ‘fast end’ – standard road bike territory.

Finally, you had a folding pedal break. It happens on Bromptons too, and replacements are £6 a pair.

Comment on Developing web services in ServiceMix by Distributed Weekly 142 — Scott Banwart's Blog

Distributed Weekly 142 — Scott Banwart's Blog — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:38:30 +0000

[...] Developing web services in ServiceMix [...]

Comment on Build-time integration testing OSGi bundles in ServiceMix by jamie

jamie — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:18:31 +0000

How ironic. I was just talking about how awesome this would be to have automated in jenkins.
Good job!

Comment on Bootstrap Projects for Getting Started with ServiceMix 4 by Distributed Weekly 136 — Scott Banwart's Blog

Distributed Weekly 136 — Scott Banwart's Blog — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:46:59 +0000

[...] Bootstrap Projects for Getting Started with ServiceMix 4 [...]

Comment on Understanding ActiveMQ Broker Networks by Christian Posta

Christian Posta — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:27:34 +0000

Thanks for the step-by-step description. Really helps to approach it like that when dealing with networks of brokers that can get complicated.

Comment on Understanding ActiveMQ Broker Networks by night tale » ActiveMQ networks and advisory messages explained

night tale » ActiveMQ networks and advisory messages explained — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:55:14 +0000

[...] Jakub wrote an excellent blog post explaining more on how ActiveMQ networks work. The one things that somehow always got unexplained [...]

Comment on Understanding ActiveMQ Broker Networks by Doug

Doug — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:30:58 +0000

Your post is really doing a great job explaining activemq network!

Comment on Configuring ActiveMQ transactions in Spring by Michael

Michael — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:35:41 +0000

We don’t have a mission-critical app, so in the end just gave up maintaining clean transaction support. Once the codebase became large, it was difficult to keep up with unit tests that required verifying that transaction support was still intact.

Comment on Configuring ActiveMQ transactions in Spring by Preben

Preben — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:09:43 +0000

Real nice – Have been looking for this a long time. No wonder why it’s hard to come around when you se the verbosity of the configuration needed to support XA. Frankly thats one of the reasons why we are still stuck with JEE appservers

Comment on Why I dig Scala: Concurrency and the Dining Philosophers by Baltasar Trancon

Baltasar Trancon — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:24:59 +0000

Since you brought up the hygiene issue… There is a protocol that ensures fairness by requiring that chopsticks be cleaned when passed on (seriously: Chandy and Misra, ACM TOPLAS 6:4, 1984)