http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/ en-us 2007-08-30T17:41:46-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2007/08/my_blog_has_mov.html I decided to start a new blog, a blog that won't go away when I graduate someday. It's called The Daley Devlin. I finally have my own domain now too at http://devlindaley.com. You can update your feed reader by... Devlin 2007-08-30T17:41:46-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2006/01/rubifying_legac_1.html ActiveRecord There are several conventions, which when followed in RoR lead to getting a tremendous amount of functionality for free. Some of the more well known conventions is that of model names to table names. Model names should be... ruby Devlin 2006-01-20T16:42:19-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/11/railsconf_2006g.html Great news from the guys who bring us RubyConf. This coming June 22-25 2006 in Chicago is RailsConf. I have not yet been able to make any Ruby conference, well, that's not quite accurate. I was able to drop in... Devlin 2005-11-28T13:12:38-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/11/pride_and_preju_1.html Last night I took my wife to the only movie theater showing Pride and Prejudice near us in Utah, Jordon Commons. I think you have to go into a movie like this, a story line which has been remade, and... Movies Devlin 2005-11-18T17:02:27-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/09/manually_experi_1.html I'm taking the "Large-scale Distributed System Design" from Dr. Windley. In teaching us about HTTP he used a telnet session to manually interact with the protocol to illustrate the complete lack of magic and simplicity of the protocol. Here's how... Misc Devlin 2005-09-23T17:16:16-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/05/brainstorming_o.html I've just been thinking about some new ways that virtualization could be applied. I haven't thought all of these through, so be nice. For large groups of computers (like in large companies or universities) virtualize every workstation. Transparent to users,... Virtualization Devlin 2005-05-18T13:46:26-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/05/playing_windows.html I finally figured one way of getting my Fedora Core 3 machine to play wmv files. I have installed the latest mplayer and mplayer codecs via rpm from http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/mplayer/. For some reason my MPlayer 1.0pre7-RPM-3.4.2 crashes when I try to... Linux Devlin 2005-05-18T13:38:47-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/04/fedora_core_3_a.html The main point is that although Java 1.5 works very well on Fedora Core 3, the Java Web Start doesn't work at all. I found this issue known and documented as bugs 6195591 and 6188963. I found the solution from... Java Devlin 2005-04-28T22:56:35-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/04/network_perform.html Nathan has done several network benchmarks with Windows 2003 Servers. Instead of looking at the average, I wanted to see if the performance between each virtual machine was consistent, or if some were being starved. I've taken the data from... Devlin 2005-04-27T17:22:10-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/03/my_identity_has.html I've heard a lot of stories from other people about identity theft. Things from cell phones in their name to calling cards being drained with calls to Asia. It happened to me with my Discover card that I share with... Misc Devlin 2005-03-10T22:01:15-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/01/java_samba_impl.html Since we are using DOGMA as the cluster of client machines to create test traffic for our test benches, the distributed client code is in Java. Nathan already has a java client to make http requests. OIT said that one... Virtualization Devlin 2005-01-24T16:54:01-07:00 http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/01/overhead_of_vir.html Dr. Windley suggested a methodology for determining the overhead due to virtualization, using a load balancer, a cluster of clients and varying the number of virtual machines. I do think it is a good way to begin tackling the problem,... Virtualization Devlin 2005-01-24T15:20:40-07:00