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		<title>VUGen Code Snippet for stripping out new line characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should build a function library for VUGEN so I can reuse these everywhere I go, as I often find myself having to redo these. Anyhow this bit of code will strip out newline characters and rebuild the string so it is new line character free. The {sso} LoadRunner oparameter above was a result of <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=306&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connection to JMS Queue with LoadRunner and OC4J</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My memory is not the best. Recently I had to write a quick Loadrunner script to connect to a JMS queue, using the OC4J Oracle containers for J2EE libraries. A simple task that caused me a little grief due to some quirky configuration details. Well I have posted some quick tips here &#8211; so next <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=292&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eliminate database caching from skewing your performance test results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you repeat the execution of short, say 1 hour bursts, of performance tests, you run the risk of skewing your performance results as a result of database caching. This can happen, as we often want to repeat a test utilising the same data, for baselining and then comparison benchmark runs. Using the same data <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=279&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Ruby to connect to DB2 and extract data to a CSV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 23:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DB2]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the young boys keep raving about Ruby. I still think Python has a lot more library support via eggs because it has been around longer. Anyhow I gave Ruby a crack for this trivial task and, yes, the same as Python, it does&#8217;nt take too much code to automate a painful manual task. This <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=255&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MacBook &#8211; Flashing Question Mark Folder on Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been having alot of fun with my MacBok of late. I think one of the kids sat on the screen and cracked the LCD screen, and I have been putting off getting that fixed, due to both the cost and downtime involved. This will have to be addressed soon though as the cracked <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=247&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Correlation using The Grinder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Grinder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been using The Grinder to simulate some http user traffic. Its a great little free tool.  Here are a few tips to help you with correlating data from server responses. Firstly, make sure that you can interrogate data for your server responses if they are compessed responses, you will need to decompress <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=233&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle timestamp difference SQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often in performance testing we need to get processing times of transactions which have been timestamped in a log somewhere. This usually entails multiple log entries for the same transaction which have been processed for in and out entries. Consider timekeeper entries for example, employees clocking in for work and out of work multiple times <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=216&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Oracle PL SQL to bulk load XML</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Services]]></category>
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		<title>Hyperic HQ Startup on Ubuntu 9.04</title>
		<link>http://jkvine.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/hyperic-hq-startup-on-ubuntu-9-04/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyperic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an almost complete installation guide to installing Hyperic on Ubuntu here Hyperic on Ubuntu . The only part missing is adding the agent and server as part of the automatic startup. This post shows you how to do this. To ensure the hyperic agent and server startup automatically each time you reboot or <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=184&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>XML and WSDL Validation</title>
		<link>http://jkvine.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/xml-and-wsdl-validation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Services]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking to  perform either of these functions then go no further than downloading the free Java IDE tools, Eclipse or Netbeans. Both of these have adequate functionality for validating XMLs and WSDLs. The latest review on the comparison of these two tools is that they both compare almost on par. Therefore up <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jkvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9303261&amp;post=176&amp;subd=jkvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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