http://www.eclab.byu.edu/ Brigham Young University en-us Copyright 2007 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:05:33 -0700 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:16:31 -0700 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2007/08/my_blog_has_mov.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2007/08/my_blog_has_mov.html Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:41:46 -0700 I just read a short article from the June 2006 issue of Application Development Trends called, "The Reality of Virtualization." A few of the points the article made that I liked where that cost reduction may be the reason that... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/the_reality_of.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/the_reality_of.html Virtualization Project Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:25:41 -0700 According to here Microsoft has just hired John Lam. John Lam is the developer behind RubyCLR. This move makes me very happy. I really enjoy the Ruby programming language and perhaps this will lead to increased support for Ruby in... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/rubyclr.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/rubyclr.html Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:03:04 -0700 Yesterday BYU had the honor of hosting Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto, chief designer of the Ruby programming language). The presentation was interesting and funny which shows that Matz was very well perpared and has an excellent sense of humor considering that... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/matz_at_byu.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/matz_at_byu.html Ruby Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:55:57 -0700 Microsoft has opened up its virtualization format. This means that third party companies can use the format "without fear of infringing on Microsoft patents." I spent a few minutes thinking about what Microsoft is going to get out of this.... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/microsoft_opens.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/10/microsoft_opens.html Virtualization Project Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:38:59 -0700 This is the first release of Skuery a partial embedding of XQuery functionality in PLT Scheme. The release was a part of my master thesis work. skuery-0.0.1.tgz... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/tewk/archives/2006/09/skuery_001_rele.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/tewk/archives/2006/09/skuery_001_rele.html Skuery Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:29:48 -0700 I found an article here about some of the "Pitfalls of Server Virtualization." Some of the things highlighted include: understanding license restrictions, understanding what your servers can realistically do, and getting hard drives to work quicker. I'd say in my... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/07/pitfalls_of_ser.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/07/pitfalls_of_ser.html Virtualization Project Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:33:21 -0700 I found a video that talks about a software company called Softricity. Softricity is turning software into an on demand, centrally managed service. Applications are downloaded on demand and with virtualization they run on the machine without causing conflicts with... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/06/softricity.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/06/softricity.html Virtualization Project Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:30:31 -0700 Well, I think I may have used the wrong method to decide how a benchmark performed. On this last series of tests I was using the median of five iterations on the integer suite of the cpu2000 benchmark. I was... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/04/timing_issues_r.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/04/timing_issues_r.html Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:36:56 -0700 Next weeks paper is ESX Server Performance and Resource Management for CPU-Intensive Workloads. This is a pretty interesting paper with some work which overlaps with things we have done. We can use this to get ideas on how to build... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/03/virtualization_2.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/03/virtualization_2.html Virtualization Reading Group Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:41:11 -0700 My fiancée and I went to a preview performance of “Arsenic and Old Lace” last night and we went away happy. The play is a product of WWII America and even though the genre is theatre of the grotesque most... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/03/arsenic_and_old.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/03/arsenic_and_old.html Theatre Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:51:29 -0700 I upgraded the version of ESX in our testing enviornment from 2.1 to 2.5.2 today. This fixes a few known bugs with vmkusage when used on a host machine with hyperthreading enabled. I would also like to recommand that we... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/03/changes_to_the_1.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/twilcox/archives/2006/03/changes_to_the_1.html Virtualization Project Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:02:12 -0700 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... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2006/01/rubifying_legac_1.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2006/01/rubifying_legac_1.html ruby Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:42:19 -0700 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... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/11/railsconf_2006g.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/daley/archives/2005/11/railsconf_2006g.html Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:12:38 -0700 After what seems like an ice age, I was able to re-run the tests that I ran this April with multiple machines. The key difference is the fact that last time, we made changes to the LUNs while addings VMs.... http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/harsh/archives/2005/11/more_results_wi_1.html http://blogs.eclab.byu.edu/harsh/archives/2005/11/more_results_wi_1.html ECLab Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:43:24 -0700