Microformats, X2V, and testing…

Richard Cooper — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:02:41 +0000

I’ve been playing around with Brian Suda’s X2V transforms from the microformats.org site, and as I needed to get my hand back in with .NET and Visual Studio 2008 I have created a couple of aspx pages and a webservice to provide X2V services. These pages will allow you to pass a url as a parameter

i.e http://frozenskys.co.uk/hcard2vcard.aspx?url=http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard

and if the page contains a valid hCard or hCalendar get back the corresponding vCard or iCal. Once I have tidied up the code and added one or two more formats, I’ll post a zip of it here for peeps to play with.

I now need some help testing them so if anybody would like to have a play they can be found here:

http://frozenskys.co.uk/hcard2vcard.aspx

http://frozenskys.co.uk/hcal2vcal.aspx

and the web service can be found here:

http://frozenskys.co.uk/x2v.asmx

Let me know if anything breaks :-)

SQL Load Testing

Richard Cooper — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:31:13 +0000

We have been doing some MS SQL Server load testing and deadlock investigation at work, using the Microsoft RML Utilities. These consist of a tool called ReadTrace which will process a SQL Profiler trace into XML files, and generate an analytics database (with reports!) and a tool called ostress which can replay these xml files against a database, and simulate several users. I have been looking for a similar tool for MySQL and apart from several “load” scripts, all I could find was something called bristlecone. I will be testing this out in the next couple of weeks and will report back here with my results.

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Microformats, X2V, and testing…

SQL Load Testing