Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Another post for my fading memory, how to install the GD libraries for your Leopard Apache installation running PHP 5.2.5. I will be using these libraries in a forthcoming blog about the use of 'sparklines' to present complex performance monitoring data.
Now on with installation. Thanks to topicdesk for leading the ...
Posted in General, OSX, PHP, Tools | 21 Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
If you've been using a Macbook Pro or similar for some time, you'll find that their batteries need tender love and care, if they are to go the distance. According to Apple, I fit into the 'ideal use' category as I regularly use my notebook on the 1+ hour daily ...
Posted in General, OSX, Hardware | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
In working with SiteScope of late, I've found that it doesn't always collect performance metrics the way I want to. More importantly, it can often turn a simple monitoring activity into a complex disaster. Take monitoring via JMX for example. In SiteScope, it has a rather complicated (and sometimes broken) ...
Posted in LoadRunner, PHP, Perl, Solaris, Ruby, SiteScope | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Ever been on a client site and stuck with 1024 x 768?
I remember when even that was a dream, but after you get used to widescreen dual VGA in your own environment, weaning yourself off this can be a challenge. If you believe Microsoft research, dual screen users "never ...
Posted in Hardware, Productivity | No Comments »
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
After getting nowhere with lack luster HP support, I turned to the power of the Open Source community and got a very simple script up and running to remotely monitor Weblogic JVM Performance and JMS queues using JMX and JRuby.
Despite having some initial issues with the code, the author of ...
Posted in LoadRunner, Ruby, Analysis, Weblogic, SiteScope | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I quite literally stole this idea from Charlie at PerformanceEngineering in which he posted a response to a challenge by Dmitry on how to get regular expressions up and running within LoadRunner.
I'm a huge fan of regex, and thanks to these guys, now have a way of implementing at least ...
Posted in LoadRunner | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
HP LoadRunner Analysis is a free tool right? Well, maybe not "free, as in free beer", but you can certainly install the trial version of LoadRunner 9.x, and Analysis does not appear to be time limited.
All right, I realise that the Controller is time limited, so how do you go ...
Posted in LoadRunner, Solaris, Analysis, Tuning | 3 Comments »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Mercury's Virtual Table Server (VTS) provides the following functionality when sharing data between vusers in your typical LoadRunner scenario ...
Virtual Table Server (VTS) first edition, introduced the capability for LoadRunner virtual users, WinRunner and XRunner, to communicate in real time. Data extraction and communication was simplified but limited to column/queue ...
Posted in LoadRunner, PHP, Tools, Testing, Programming | No Comments »
