Category Archives: programming

REST services – the Node JS simple server

Posted on April 18, 2022 by DocDock

NodeJS has actually encapsulated all of the hard work. A simple server that will wait for HTTP GET statements. This simple server program has a lot of functionality. It is an example of three different endpoints that can be called. … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi – fun with electronics

Posted on February 6, 2022 by DocDock

Internet of things devices are amazing. They are just really smart really tiny computers used in innovative ways. smart electric socket smart light bulbs doorbell camera video picture frames autonomous vacuum cleaner Amazon echo Sonos speakers Internet radios It is … Continue reading →

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Hacking skills as determined by a politician

Posted on December 7, 2021 by DocDock

Words have meaning and it is a bit disturbing when you read an article or see a speech where they are being incorrectly used. The most recent example of this is how people use or refer to technology. When computers … Continue reading →

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Voted off the island

Posted on February 22, 2021 by DocDock

I was frankly happy when the US presidential election was over. It was a long tiring process that took forever and once it was over it still wasn’t really over. Cries of “fake news” and “election fraud” were scary initially … Continue reading →

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Happy Halloween 2020

Posted on October 31, 2020 by DocDock

It has been a pretty amazing year so far. We have seen presidential impeachment, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce they are stepping down, Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash, Explosion in Beruit, A 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes the … Continue reading →

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Payday loans or modern day loansharking

Posted on June 26, 2020 by DocDock

I never thought about the sources of spam nor the types of spam until I started this blog. I must not have this site configured very well as I receive spam daily. I have tried to set things up to … Continue reading →

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Artificially Intelligent or Creepy

Posted on January 25, 2020 by DocDock

I guess it happened a few years ago when I became a bit more cognizant that those helpful computers were a bit smarter than they first seemed. Perhaps smarter isn’t the right term, perhaps intrusive. The exact incident was when … Continue reading →

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Gatling and file variables

Posted on December 30, 2019 by DocDock

At the same time you might wish to replace some of the hard coded values (ie usernames and passwords) with variables as well. It is possible to create lists of values which will be used by Gatling. These feeder lists … Continue reading →

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Gatling and Scala

Posted on December 21, 2019 by DocDock

Gatling and the Scala that it uses has quite a bit in common with Java – in this case it is the virtual machine. The Scala code is compiled to byte code and is run on the same JVM that … Continue reading →

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Running a Gatling test script

Posted on December 15, 2019 by DocDock

If you create a test script using the recorder or even if you use your favorite editor the scala test code will need to be stored in the simulations directory (ie %gatling_home%\user-files\simulations). The gatling.bat script (ie %gatling_home%\bin) will look in … Continue reading →

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