Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
It's a real pain for Apple users to synchronize Microsoft Outlook with Apple Mail, but Parallels (or VMWare) brings us one step closer. You can virtualize your work environment (typically a PC with Outlook/Exchange access) and host your own local IMAP server, to sync mail between your virtual PC and ...
Posted in General, OSX, Windows | 3 Comments »
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Have just stumbled across a very cool productivity app for OSX. I'm already a big fan of Quicksilver, and FlyGesture builds on that style of functionality albeit from your trackpad.
FlyGesture is activated like Exposé or Dashboard, bringing up a transparent window of "guides" to move your mouse through. Moving your ...
Posted in General, OSX, Tools, Productivity | No Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Needed to break a large file containing many messages, each message separated on a new line into many new small files containing only one message per file ... Started thinking in perl, but almost looked past the Unix split command:
split -l 1 -a 3 bigfile.txt smallfile_
-l 'n' will put 'n' ...
Posted in Analysis, Unix | No Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Jason Gorman describes in his article 6 requirements for the practical use of dashboards in performance related testing.
As a performance tester, I find that I often need to provide snapshot summaries of systems performance ala dashboards. The key requirement imposed is normally timeliness and relevance of data being presented.
So sticking ...
Posted in Statistics, Analysis, Tuning | No Comments »
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Am really starting to enjoy the power and portability of using Java in my load testing efforts, especially when the environments in which you work are often limited in terms of tool sets you're allowed to use. For example the current Solaris environment I work in doesn't have a C ...
Posted in Java, Testing | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I don't normally blog on the personal side of things, but this video I certainly identify with. Absolute classic!
Posted in General, Humour | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
It has long since annoyed me and no doubt numerous others, the inability of Excel to get beyond 65,536 rows of data or more simply 2^16 ...
A deft upgrade to Office 2007 sees an improvement in this limitation and am now able to have at least 1M rows of data. ...
Posted in General, Analysis, Tools | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Techdebug has spotted the size increase in Gmail standard user accounts. Guess that means storage is getting pretty cheap for the heavy weights. Coincidentally DPHOTO uses the GMail service for its production users, which pretty much rules out the need for me(us) to ever have to re-install MailEnable again ... ...
Posted in General | No Comments »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
I've been experimenting with a couple of different IDEs lately for Java development, and the two at the top of my list are NetBeans and Eclipse. A frustrating thing is that Mac OSX tends to ignore anti aliasing rules for text in these applications. I think it has something to ...
Posted in OSX, Programming | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
More for my own reference than anything else, here is how you install the CVS bundle for TextMate using a subversion client.
1. If you don't already have a subversion, try the precompiled version here.
2. Set the LC_CTYPE variable to use UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
3. Make a bundles directory if you have not ...
Posted in OSX, Programming | 2 Comments »
Monday, October 1st, 2007
If you're a Mac user and you're not using TextMate, then hurry up and join the bandwagon. This is a powerful text editor for Mac OSX, which I use for just about any type of project be it C#, Java, PHP, Perl or even COBOL. What makes this tool so ...
Posted in General, OSX, Backup, Ruby | No Comments »
