Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
When performance testing I often need to spy on TCP (http) traffic between the client and server on a frequent basis. This is pretty much a staple of any performance test script development effort.
In the past I've relied heavily on trace options within LoadRunner and the like, but often find ...
Posted in OSX, Ruby, Tools, Productivity, Windows | 4 Comments »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
If diff -u or wdiff isn't cutting it for your correlating requirements when scripting load harnesses, you might want to try daisydiff as an alternative ... * Works with badly formed HTML that can be found "in the wild".
* The diffing is more ...
Posted in Tools, Productivity, Testing | 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 »
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
If you've ever had to write lots of LoadRunner scripts you'll probably be interested in this snippet of code. Imagine you're in a situation where you need to produce many LoadRunner scripts each with multiple actions. Normally, once you've got all your custom correlations down pat (I hate correlation studio ...
Posted in LoadRunner, Perl, Productivity, Programming | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Well as you know, I've become a bit of a Mac zealot (thanks Ted) and strongly favour TextMate as my preferred editor for coding and scripting ... Unfortunately, my real job is in a pure Windows environment, so if you're after a hit of TextMate-like functionality, try Intype ... It's ...
Posted in General, Tools, Productivity, Programming | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Google have got some charting code worth looking at, which basically allows you to create charts by modifying parameters in the query string.
Something as simple as this:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chtt=Tim's%20Beer%20Intake&cht=p3&chd=s:9h&chs=250x100&chco=00ff00&chl=Unemployed|Employed produces this:
Being on holidays at the moment, I'm lacking the um, 'project' on which to apply this technology, but am curious ...
Posted in Analysis, Productivity, Programming | 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 »
