Seems like the Applications Performance Monitoring landscape has changed since last time I looked, here’s some links, including a route to the Gartner Report.
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Yet another wordpress theme
I need a fifth blog; I am planning to reimplement my ello feed in wordpress and so I checked out some themes, simple, sosimple, libretto and minnow. I went live with minnow.
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Digg Labs Visualisation (2007)
While transcribing my Sun/Oracle blog to this space, I coped an article which pointed at now defucnt Digg Labs visualisation tools, I said, I also took the opportunity to publicise/review some of digglabs visualisation experiments. big spy, stack and swarm. I have posted the screen shots I used here.
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Some thoughts on No SQL
A problem at work led to me run a few quick queries to determine if MoSQL was the way to go, we had some legacy code constraints and some legacy skills constraints.
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Rural Broadband
This is not a good story, it seems v. opaque and I think they’re between regulatory regims, which means the subsidy is gone.
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Naymz & Klout
I am mailed once/month by Naymz who tell me that they have discovered something interesting about me. I often login to see, but it rarely seems to be that interesting. I have not connected all my networks to it, keeping it out of Yahoo and Facebook which I treat as mainly private networks. This week…
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Windows 8.1 apps
Microsoft are encouraging the use of online accounts with windows. Not everyone wants this. I was asked by someone without an account, who uses so-called local accounts how to get into their mail when challenged for a password.
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Etherium
I attended a webinar on Ethereum, they argue they have extracted the block chain management functionality from bitcoin and implemented what they call a consensus machine. Here are some links that I was pointed at or found.
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El Capitan
The time has come..it would seem. Is it easy? It all depends. It wasn’t seamless but we are working again, sort of. Also it seems Apple consider /var to be a system directory and not for use by user installed code but I have only found one program (written by me) impacted, which I initially…
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Streaming TV at home (ROKU)
I bought a ROKU stick, it’s pretty easy to start and make to work. It’s not clear from the web site, but you must open an account on their web site, agree their terms and conditions and lodge payment details with them; for buying extra I assume. The BBC, ITV, All 4 and Demand 5…
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Raspberry Pi (Deprecated)
I bought a Raspberry Pi to act as a Media Server in the home. I bought a PI, case, SD card and power source. As ever here are my notes. Currently, getting started (or 1st boot), 1st customisations, and early days with the media browsers and XBMC/Kodi. I have BBC, ITV and YouTube working, Channel…
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Raspberry Pi, Remote Control (Deprecated)
I want a raspberry pi in the living room to stream content on the TV. How to control it without moving my arse; this is a major design goal. A mistake, the Pi’s at that time weren’t powerful enough. …
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OMG Excel Arrays (a UNIQ filter)
Right. I needed to write a UNIQ filter in an excel spreadsheet and this needed to be implemented using functions i.e. not VB for two reasons; I can’t and the customer doesn’t want me to.
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Ubuntu 14, add user visible
I screwed up the installation of a U14 Gnome installation and the user was not prompted on the desktop login panel. This was fixed by using the settings -> user accounts control.
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Linux Power Management
Been trying to get my latest Linux Laptop to behave nicely while on battery. It’s an Elementary Luna build. I came to the conclusion that there’s not much that can be done; it’s one of those things we leave to the OS authors, in this case Canonical.
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