http://kevin-powe.nerdfu.net/blog IT keeps me busy until I can be Masi Oka Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:49:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's a report, about Tuxedo. See what I did there? So the last time we talked about Tuxedo, we talked about the ULOG and TMTRACE. This time around, we're going to look at a great tool for basic performance profiling. The great thing with all of the tools we're looking at, just ... http://kevin-powe.nerdfu.net/blog/?p=43 While I'm closing out the next Tuxedo post, this is almost more of a note to myself more than anyone else. It's about useability and acclimatisation, and may well be blindingly obvious to you. I had an experience this week that really drilled home how we acclimatise to interfaces, internalise ... http://kevin-powe.nerdfu.net/blog/?p=42 Things have been a little quiet around here, my dear imaginary audience, and for that I apologise profusely. I've been finding most of my spare time taken over by a pet programming project which I'm perched on the edge of revealing and quite excited about, despite its tiny scope. (more ... http://kevin-powe.nerdfu.net/blog/?p=41 I don't claim to be a Top Gun consultant by any stretch of the imagination. Sadly, the Val Kilmer of IT consulting (whoever that might be) is unlikely to offer to let me ride his tail any time. (seriously, how could you deliver that dialogue with a straight face? Even ... http://kevin-powe.nerdfu.net/blog/?p=40 Hello! Once again, profuse apologies for the silence. Moving to Perth, technical issues on the project I'm working on, and a crunch for deadlines for one of the products I'm involved in developing has meant that things have been a little disrupted for a while. But I've been thinking big ... http://kevin-powe.nerdfu.net/blog/?p=39