Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I've recently started following a blog which sets weekly programming challenges. I'm getting sick of Nintendo DS brain training and thought I'd try something more relevant to my line of work. Also, this gives me a good opportunity to learn more about my favoured scripting language at present, which is ...
Posted in Ruby, Programming | No Comments »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Went to the third RailsCamp held in a scout hall near Gosford NSW last weekend; my brain has just about got back to normal after 3 solid days of drinking and coding =)
RailsCamp is a get together of mostly Rails developers, but also a fairly eclectic mix of Ruby hackers ...
Posted in General, Ruby, Programming | No Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Recently I noticed some discussion in the watir user group about trying to capture screenshots when running automated tests.
For such a simple requirement, it's frustrating that solutions available either cost money (such as the purchase of SnagIt) or are a tad complicated in implementation requiring the installation of some out ...
Posted in Ruby, Tools, Programming, watir | 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 »
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 »
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Download it 'ere...
I currently have a mobile broadband account (HSDPA) provided by three.com.au, and after a hexy surcharge from the previous month when exceeding my limit, thought it would be prudent to build a dashboard widget that tracks my monthly bandwidth usage.
Building on a previous post that automates calls to ...
Posted in OSX, Perl, Ruby, Programming | 12 Comments »
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
[UPDATE] Mr Gecko, has since implemented this logic and sorted out downloading woes (for u US folk) in a nifty little OSX app here ...
In between contracts, I have been practicing the art of correlation by scraping data from public web sites. The legality of this is perhaps a little ...
Posted in Perl, Programming, Automation | 6 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 »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
If you're stuck with this error when trying to compile your own apps:
No rule to make target `/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'.
You will probably find that your Leopard installation is lacking some necessary files.
If you copy the files from your old(er) installation of perl (5.8.6) you should be able to ...
Posted in OSX, Perl, Programming | 17 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 »
Friday, May 18th, 2007
If you have the requirement to manipulate multitudes of input messages / log files / data templates with dynamic variables, you may be left wondering what is the best approach. One could argue in a friendly way for hours about which language is the best to achieve this outcome (almost ...
Posted in Perl, Programming | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in SOAP, PHP, Programming | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
The try...catch...finally clause found in languages like Java are very handy for error handling. In scripting languages like Perl you can achieve the same effect using the eval function as the following code snippet demonstrates.
eval{ &yourSubRoutine($parameters); };
$@ ? $yourLogObject->yourErrorMethod("I failed with reason: $@") ):
...
Posted in Perl, Programming | No Comments »
