Category Archives: programming

Gatling

Posted on December 7, 2019 by DocDock

Of the three load and performance testing tools that I am going to describe Gatling is the new comer. While LoadRunner has been around since 1994 Gatling was first released in 2011 and since then has had 2 major releases … Continue reading →

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Performance Testing – LoadRunner

Posted on November 23, 2019 by DocDock

Loadrunner is perhaps the oldest of these three testing tools that I am going to cover. It was created by Mercury Interactive in 1994, sold to Hewlett Packard in 2006 and eventually resold to Micro Focus in 2016. This software … Continue reading →

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How much can you process – Performance Testing

Posted on November 13, 2019 by DocDock

Load and performance testing is just like many other types of testing (beta testing, functional, acceptance, regression, unit testing, integration testing) but like them it also has a specific goal. That goal is that a system or service can run … Continue reading →

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Hammers and Saws and IOT – oh my

Posted on October 2, 2019 by DocDock

After moving to a new apartment I needed to get some hardware in order to hang a few pictures in the livingroom. A quick trip to the hardware store should allow me to make my apartment a home. While walking … Continue reading →

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command line fun – arrays

Posted on April 20, 2019 by DocDock

Work with new people and learn new things. I used to work with someone who was unfamiliar with the Unix world, did not know how to program in Java and couldn’t write shell scripts either. Victoria was actually a very clever … Continue reading →

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dipping your toes into the ocean with Mermaid

Posted on March 22, 2019 by DocDock

It began with a great idea. “lets do our systems graphs in such a way we can version them in GIT” Anyway, I believe that is how it started.  I was then told that perhaps the open source tool Mermaid … Continue reading →

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Stupid postman tricks

Posted on March 6, 2019 by DocDock

First the technology. RESTful calls are actually pretty cool. It is neat to simply send off a GET or POST message and extract or update the server with vital information. I am not going to write up a long article, … Continue reading →

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Better late than never – LED cube

Posted on February 8, 2019 by DocDock

A few weeks back I did my blog “Just making it – a new cube” which was my experiences doing my next led cube.  This cube was an 8x8x8 cube.  The only thing that I didn’t do was to put … Continue reading →

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A thought experiment

Posted on February 4, 2019 by DocDock

There are a lot of words and concepts in the world that are bad.  just one example of this is the suffix “ist”. sexist racist white nationalist ageist exhibitionist bigamist chauvinist Depending on your own personal circumstances it is easy … Continue reading →

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more fun with datatables

Posted on November 1, 2018 by DocDock

I actually don’t get a chance to do much GUI development but I did get a short stint on a project that used datatables.  It is actually fascinating just how much of a facelift this does give your standard HTML.  … Continue reading →

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