How to stress test your app using Funkload — part 2

Planet Mozilla

The first part of this blog post is here. I’ve initially split it in two parts because I’ve encountered a few problems with the distributed feature, so I thought it was going to take Ben a few days to fix them. But he did fix them within the hour…

28 July 2011

Xcode Project Modernization

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, The rapid pace of change in the world of iOS development means that it is easy for old projects (which is just about anything more than about 6 months old) to get left behind. Each time a…

28 July 2011

Bodhi.Zazen: SSH logs as a Honeypot

Planet Ubuntu

You can use your logs as a "poor mans" honey pot. Review your logs and modify the following awk command to suit your needs. The exact syntax will vary depending on your authentication (passwords or keys) and server. Debian: awk…

28 July 2011

Your page in 3D

Planet Mozilla

Tilt is cool. Very cool. But I almost see it as a debugging tool and I wish the links were clickable, Firebug or DOMI could work. So I did what I always do in such a case, what I did long ago with Small Screen Rendering: I used CSS It's less powerful since…

27 July 2011

The Rise of Git

Slashdot

snydeq writes "InfoWorld takes a look at the rise of Git, the use of which has increased sixfold in the past three years. Buoyed in large part by interest among the Ruby community and younger developers, Git has been gaining share for open source…

27 July 2011

What’s required to tune MySQL?

MySQL Performance Blog

I got a serendipitous call (thanks!) yesterday asking what would be needed to tune[1] a database for better performance. It is a question that I hear often, but I never thought about answering it in public. Here’s a consolidated version of what I…

27 July 2011

Hackinations: Making any OS X app full-screenable in Lion

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Today, Steve Sande begged me to add a full-screen button to Colloquy. He offered me chocolate and kittens, neither of which is particularly good for me. But he's a good guy and I like him and his wife so I went ahead and figured this out. [Editor's note:…

26 July 2011

Restricting Skype via iptables

Planet GNOME

Whenever I launch Skype on my computer, it gets banned from the university network within a few minutes; the ban expires again after a few minutes when I close Skype. This is likely due to the aggresive nature of Skype, maybe the firewalls think it is…

26 July 2011

TUAW's Daily Mac App: GrandPerspective

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Finding large space hogging files in a complex file system like that on your Mac can be difficult. GrandPerspective, a small open source program, aims to help you find and remove space wasters quickly and easily. GrandPerspective first scans a target…

26 July 2011