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Archive for October, 2009

Intro to Web Services and REST in JAVA

By ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Introduction: From a technical standpoint, building a Web Service is not entirely difficult, but it’s not a task that should be taken lightly either. Given the vast use of Web Services in the Enterprise environment, on a recent trip to Texas A&M University, I was able to speak to students (courtesy of Dr. Salih Yurttas) [...]

Reporting Services Options

By ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Having implemented Reporting Services solutions on a number of projects, I think it’s important to note the different ways to deal with implementing reports. First off, you can go with the model using a Report Server, SSRS 2005 or 2008. Either way, in this case, you are are leveraging Business Intelligence Development Studio, or VS [...]

The Grinder – Load Testing Web Applications

By ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I ended up using The Grinder load tester for work recently and found it to be remarkably lightweight and easy to use. The Grinder is a free, Java open source load testing framework that uses Jython scripts for running the load tests. Jython is interesting in itself — it’s a Java implementation of Python that [...]

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