This merged mining daemon looks very interesting. Are there any tutorials out there on how to get started? Would it be enough to simply compile the source from: https://github.com/vinced/namecoin/tree/namecoind-mergedmine and run that as the namecoin client, run an up to date bitcoin client and point my miners at the merged miner proxy (which in turn would point to the locally running namecoind and bitcoind)?

Wouldn't it be possible to use to parent chain interface to a mining pool such as deepbit or btcguild?

I'm looking forward in seeing how this evolves...

Cheers:)