I love open source software when it’s done correctly. Sometimes you get kludgey projects that don’t amount to much other than a bunch of really bad code… GanttProject is not one of those crappy projects. Holy crap I love this program. I wanted to get Microsoft Project to track some stuff but this does [...]
Entries from January 2007
January 28, 2007
Trends with my Google usage
I use Google Reader and Google Search with similar frequency across days of the week, and though I’ve been using Search for years I’ve only used Google Reader since they did their overhaul (a month or so ago). The trends below are interesting…looks like Monday, Tuesday, Thursday I’m searching a lot and reading blogs, but [...]
January 21, 2007
Siege – part 2
Siege (http://www.joedog.org/JoeDog/Siege) is awesome. I got it to handle multiple session cookies simultaneously across multiple processes. It is going to save me a lot of time and effort load testing my site. I just wish it outputted significantly more granular data so that I could run my own analysis on performance and latency across a [...]
January 20, 2007
Siege
Siege is a great little utility I came across tonight. It lets you load test a server with all sorts of configuration variables.
I’m still trying to figure out how to get it to deal correctly with sessions but once I do, man, is this going to have saved me a bunch of time…I really didn’t [...]
January 13, 2007
Camping Out for MacWorld
On January 8th, 2007, a group of young product managers from Google camped out on the sidewalk in San Francisco to ensure their spots in the main room for Steve Jobs’s keynote at MacWorld 2007.
What follows is a transcript of the night’s events, with photographic evidence.
December 7, 2006 (3:30 PM) – At a monthly [...]