Month: January 2010
Blog is back online (almost)
January 25, 2010
After moving my hosting, the basic content is back online, minus the last two posts. Sorry for the interruption!
JMeter annoyances with If Controller – missing ; before statement
January 15, 2010
After repeated issues trying to get what I thought would be a simple ‘If controller’ working in JMeter, it looks like my issue is to do with the poor examples on the JMeter site. Or else something is making my version and or/installation behave differently. While the example provided on the JMeter site would have […]
Text-based progress bar in Ruby for command line programs
January 13, 2010
When I’m running tests and tools, I frequently want to know how far through I am. I’d built a class to help with this a while back, but Corey Goldberg’s recent post on a python version prompted me to post this Ruby version. First, you’ll need to save this to progress_bar.rb: class Progress_bar attr_accessor :items_to_do, […]
Presstimates
January 6, 2010
Presstimate: The number you give to get a manager off your back when you’re being hassled to give an estimate; Your best guess of what estimate of effort management will accept, not how long the work will actually take.