Understanding the effect of MQ persistence on disk performance

Recently I have been trying to determine what the impact of using MQ message persistence is on disk subsystem performance. There is alot of literature from IBM recommending ideal configurations to support MQ persistence, so I won’t turn this into a post that recommends ideal settings. What I did want to achieve though, was to [...]

Automating your scripts with WWW::Mechanize

CPAN provides a great module for Perl called WWW:Mechanize. To quote CPAN:
WWW::Mechanize, or Mech for short, helps you automate interaction with a website. It supports performing a sequence of page fetches including following links and submitting forms. Each fetched page is parsed and its links and forms are extracted. A link or a form can [...]