Archive for June, 2010

More Bums on Seats

Actuance’s collaboration on Help Training Courses gets a mention in the ‘If we can you can’ newsletter this month. You can read the full article here… ‘Shildon-based entrepreneurs put bums on seats’.

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A simple servlet filter for Java performance logging

There are plenty of fancy tools for performance testing Java web applications but in addition to thorough load and volume testing before an application goes live, sometimes it’s useful just to leave simple perfomance monitoring running full time in a production environment. Monitoring the time the server takes to execute requests on your site can [...]

Category: programming

Search that (nearly) passes the Turing test

After spending a fair bit of time over the past few months developing a search facility that was a bit more ‘human’ in its responses than a simple text-based search would be, I was interested to stumble on this discussion on Applying Turing’s Ideas to Search by John Ferrara. In my case, by working in [...]

Category: web development