Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Installing GD Libraries for Leopard Apache PHP 5.2.5

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 ...

Roll Your Own SiteScope, a Simple Alternative

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) ...

An Alternative for Mercury Virtual Table Server

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 ...

NuSOAP and PHP5

Friday, March 30th, 2007

When installing the NuSOAP class on a system with PHP5, you may get the following error: "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class soapclient in ../nusoap.php on line 7240" A quick google search will reveal the following cause. As PHP5 already has a built in class called soapclient, this is where the clash is... The ...