Posted on August 03, 2009 in Fix-it
The latest Java update from Apple broke JMeter... not sure why but JMeter needs Java 1.5. Add this line near the top of your jakarta-jmeter-2.X.X/bin/jmeter file using your handy dandy text editor. I like TextWrangler.
JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5"
If …
Posted on March 13, 2009 in How-to
If you are developing an application for Linux desktop and would like to automatically find out more information about system, use the following commands in shell scripts to gather information about system. Recently I was involved in project where I need to collect information about running GUI, browser and other …
Posted on February 09, 2009 in How-to
Finally a way to flush the DNS cache on Mac OS 10.5 "dscacheutil -flushcache". PC users have always had a way to do this with "ipconfig /flushdns" but Mac users usually had to restart. In Mac OS 10.4 there was "lookupd -flushcache" but that never quite worked 100 …
Posted on February 03, 2009 in General News
Maatkit (formerly MySQL Toolkit) contains essential command-line tools for MySQL, such as table checksums, a query profiler, and a visual EXPLAIN tool. It provides missing features such as checking whether slaves have the same data as the master.
Posted on January 22, 2009 in How-to
Taken from Adam Nash's blog Psycohistory. I apologize for not giving credit more explicitly when I first posted the article.
When you buy a Western Digital (WD) 1 TB My Book External Hard Drive, they usually come formatted for Windows using FAT32. Of course, if you are using it with …
Posted on December 03, 2008 in General News
Posted on November 14, 2008 in How-to
CherryPy - CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework.
CherryPy allows developers to build web applications in much the same way they would build any other object-oriented Python program. This results in smaller source code developed in less time.
CherryPy is now more than six years old and it is has …
Posted on October 16, 2008 in Hack
Posted on October 05, 2008 in Experience
Posted on October 05, 2008 in How-to
JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplies event handling, animation, Ajax interactions and much more. The WordPress admin uses JQuery to enhance a variety of sections - the show/hide tabs in the Write page, the lightbox for the media uploader. So it’s …