Archive for the ‘Windows’ 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 »
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
If you are a rails fan you will probably recommend using active record instead, but if you just want to hack away at your mysql db from within your Ruby code, you may find this handy...
I'm currently using a wamp box to serve up content for performance metrics. What I ...
Posted in Ruby, Windows | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I've been looking for some easy ways to enumerate all of the available performance counters on a Win32 platform programatically.
Rather than trawl through the PerfMon counter GUI, or regress back into the millions of raw counters available via WMI, I was looking for a solution somewhere in between.
The ActiveState version ...
Posted in Perl, Win2K3, Analysis, Tools, Tuning, Windows | No Comments »
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 »
