About

At an airspeed of 90kts, something unique happens to a gloved hand placed outside the cockpit of an AS-350B Squirrel helicopter. 90kts is also the digital footprint of Tim Koopmans. Too old for Facebook, you can follow him on Linkedin, GitHub, his Blog and Twitter @90kts.

"If 90% of startups fail within the first five years then I had best startup at least 10 ideas ..."

Idea 1: DPHOTO

DPHOTO

Created in 2004, DPHOTO is owned and operated by my close friend @henry_dawson with the aim of providing a simple and elegant platform for people to share their digital content. Still operating today, DPHOTO hosts terrabytes of photos and videos. I retain a small but prestigious role looking after systems administration and performance.

Idea 2: Altentee

Performance & Test Automation Expert

Created in 2008, Altentee is my private company that specialises in performance and test automation using open source alternatives. I offer a free 50 concurrent user load test, which aims to trivialise the oft-inflated, over-commercialised world of application performance testing. You can compare other site's performance rankings here.

Idea 3: WatirGrid

A Grid Network for Watir

WatirGrid allows for distributed testing across a grid network using Watir. In other words, functional test automation for most internet browsers in parallel. I'm also stepping into the void of parallel testing with similar APIs at the protocol, headless and browser level.

Idea 4: 90kts

A Crock-Pot to Store All my Other Ideas

So not every "idea" is worthy, but I needed an electric crock-pot to store all those "other" coffee-fueled-ideas that I often hit upon in the early morning.



Cold Storage

  • NumbrCrunchr A simple way to collect and analyse performance metrics using sparklines.
  • snapIt A simple windows binary to capture screen shots during automation.
  • Neruo Linguistic Programming profile of your Twitter stream.
  • Dupe-Magick if you need to look for duplicate images which can't otherwise be found by md5 checksums