Tag Archives: Work

My Essential Software

August 21, 2010 – 4:36 pm

I recently got a new laptop for work, and had to install a bunch of stuff. For what it’s worth here’s what made it in within the first couple of days: 1Password DropBox (these two together are literally the first thing I install) Evernote Quick Search Box (QuickSilver replacement; either is fine for what I [...]

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Performance Testing – A Simple Plan

February 10, 2009 – 5:02 pm

I was asked to outlline what I’d expect someone to decide before they started a performance test exercise. A quick look at StickyMinds shows this document, which looks very good. It is, however, 8 pages long, which is about 7.5 pages longer than I need if my target audience is going to bother with it. [...]

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Busy

September 14, 2008 – 8:29 pm

In case you hadn’t noticed, things have been rather quiet here. Work is busy, life too, culminating on Friday of last week when I spent 20 hours in Budapest – left home at 4:30am Friday, arrived back 11:30am Saturday, which on top of alcohol-based work socializing meant way too little sleep. More regular posting to [...]

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Solaris, NWAM and Static IPs

June 19, 2008 – 1:55 pm

A new feature in OpenSolaris is NWAM, the NetWork Auto Magic, um, thingy. It’s a handy tool that automatically configures your network connection. Unfortunately it unhandily has no GUI at the moment, though one is in the works, so if it doesn’t work right first time you can quickly get lost in text files and [...]

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Load Balancing Tomcat on Leopard with mod_jk

May 28, 2008 – 2:24 pm

I’ve just had to setup a test system that load balances a site running on Tomcat across multiple computers. My test bed is 3 mac minis, one working as the ‘head’ running Apache, and the other two in the ‘farm’ handling the load. It was a less than painless exercise, so I thought I’d write [...]

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