The last couple of weeks I?ve been playing with a load testing tool called Blitz. You can create a free account which provides you the ability to ?rush? your web application with 250 concurrent users (or less) for 1 minute. And of course, you can increase both the number of concurrent users as well as […]
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I digested the audio version of Outliers – The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book, the author tells the story of a couple well-known and also lesser-known individuals that are considered to be successful. But what’s particularly interesting about this book, is the analysis the author […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, Pluralsight published my first course, Introduction to Nancy. The Nancy framework, or NancyFX for short, is a web framework started by fellow Elegant Coder Andreas?H?kansson?(@thecodejunkie).?I feel very fortunate to have had?Andreas and Steven Robbins?(@grumpydev)?available to provide feedback on the course content. Some may wonder why I chose to create a NancyFX course… […]
Read MoreIn the previous blog posts I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep and physical exercise. For this post I want to provide a quick shout out of the social media diet that I’m currently trying out. My name is Jan and I don’t have a Facebook or a Netlog account of some kind. I […]
Read MoreI have been spending a lot of time working with some CMS systems recently.? I won?t name names but it could be Drupal, WordPress, DNN, Joomla etc ? doesn?t matter.? I have been working with two different systems for two unrelated projects that happened to arrive around the same time. I admit that I am […]
Read MoreThe older I get the more I am irritated by the use of sex appeal in corporate events. People who know me personally can attest that I am FAR from a prude. I can be pretty darn crude and inappropriately-humored with the best of them. Yet, recent events have gone far enough that I thought […]
Read MoreIn the previous blog post, I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep every single night. For this post I want to emphasize the importance of physical exercise. I’m writing these words after having run approximately 15 kilometers. This I do three times a week, every week, throughout the whole year with only a few […]
Read MoreJust a quick note to mention a new tool Peter Provost turned me onto yesterday. I am digging SubSpec. It’s another Context/Spec, BDD-ish tool that sits in the middle somewhere between executable specs and a low-level AAA simple assert model. It’s appropriate anywhere Machine Specification would be appropriate, for example. The code below also uses […]
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