I am working on getting a world-record setting number of Zombies to walk around the historic Delano district in Wichita, KS. I have never tried to organize an event for 11K people, much less a zombie walk. It is interesting the number of permits, the resistance from the people who *should* benefit from this. The community organization in Delano loves the idea at least. I have that going for me. I will be posting more as the plan comes together.

So MaxelSoft just got accepted into the Microsoft incubator called BizSpark! I am beside myself with excitement. This is going to save us a fortune and should speed up our development quite a bit. Hopefully as we put the prototype to bed, I will be posting more about what I am doing. Right now, we can't really talk about it. I am so excited but my head is swimming with everything we need to get done.

A new company is born...

I am excited to announce the birth of a new company, Maxelsoft LLC. Maxelsoft is in the process of developing and designing a game-changing system that will allow small-to-medium business to reach their customers in ways previously only available to large and international businesses. It isn't just another marketplace or portal.

Product versus Process

So I created this testing tool that can theoretically create over 7000 web transactions per second. I say theoretically because the software it tests right now is only capable of accepting about 30 per second. So now I have this awesome rig that I lovingly call the Nutcracker Suite for all the right reasons and have *no development process* on which to hang it. In the focus to create, we have made a product that serves no process. We are supposed to be moving to an Agile process where we have some kind of continuous automation testing. The nutcracker suite is supposed to be part of that to ensure and validate data as well as validate load. What is needed is a development process that checks in code more than once every four months and actually has expectations defined.

Distributed Web Services Test Harness

I am finally done with my server crushing load test device. It can do a lot more than I started out to do and it does it well. It feels really great to have it code complete. I wrote it with an eye on being extensible so it is service agnostic. I have asked my unnamed employer if I could sail it out into a project like Gallio. They don't have a good service test model. It would be nice to contribute to Open Source.

Stress Load and Performance metrics

So now I have this rocket-science kind of software to crush even the scariest scaled environment. So what? I still have no idea what metrics to collect. CPU, Memory, Network and Disk are not enough, yet that is all that is being asked for.

Plastic SCM - distributed version control system (DVCS)

Plastic SCM - distributed version control system (DVCS)

Task driven development! I know it sounds waterfall, but it tastes like workflow. Check this out~!