Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in MQ, Solaris, Hardware, Analysis, Tuning | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 24th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in Perl, Testing | No Comments »
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I've been using a MacBook Pro for about 12 months now, and whilst I love this machine and its capabilities, it does tend to run at high temperatures. I use my laptop as a desktop replacement mostly, and whilst on my desk, I pretty much run parallels (virtual machines) all ...
Posted in OSX, Hardware | No Comments »
