If you have followed my previous article titled IO Performance Benchmarking 101, you know that I am a big fan of using CrystalDiskMark for measuring disk IO throughput. CrystalDiskMark is a wonderful tool, but being a GUI application it is unsuitable for using in an automated environment or when you need to test several disks … Read more
Being an avid user of the Delicious bookmarking service for over 10 years, I have collected a significant amount (over 5K) of tagged bookmarks. Lately I have been doing some cleanups on this data-set. Being a big believer in automation, this repetitive task brought me to try the Delicious API. A few node.js scripts later … Read more
I have spent the last year programming almost exclusively in javascript using the node.js framework. Previously, my client side code was written in javascript (of course) and the server side code in C#. Having different languages and frameworks on both ends required more “plumbing” in the form of code that connects the two parts together. … Read more