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Thanks much for visiting us! Here are a few of the news stories and sites around the web that we recommend.
Spyware Articles:
Spyware: IT's Public Enemy No. 1
Raising Awareness Key to Thwarting Spyware
House Again Shoots For Spyware Law
Another Fight to Wage
Machine Wars
Web Application Performance Articles:
Under Pressure
Response To Lower Fares Overwhelms Delta.com
Online Spending Sets Record In 2004
Other Links:
www.gorealtorgo.com
Web Design for Real Estate Marketing. Offering websites designed for real estate professionals in VA, DC & MD to gather new clients and give existing clients fresh information.
CNET's Free Bandwidth Meter
Check your net bandwidth for free. Take several readings; results depend on the time of day, network congestion etc.
Grinder Project Home Page
The Grinder is an open source load testing tool written in Java that generates and runs Jython scripts. TestPros uses it extensively.
OpenSta Portal
OpenSta is another excellent open source load testing tool which runs on a Windows platform. Written in Visual C++, it creates scripts in a proprietary language called SCL. .
SecuritySpace
is one of many providers of free security audits.
InfoWorld - Software Failure Can Lead To Financial Catastrophe
Software failure is a terrifying possibility that should scare the bejeezus out of any company looking to stay in business. Although the media inundates us every day with software success stories, news on the growing economy, and reports that the Internet has caused an information revolution that rivals the advent of Gutenberg's printing press, we rarely hear the flip side of this fairy tale: Hundreds of thousands of software projects fail every year. This article was posted in 2000, but it appears to be timely four years later.
Performance Tuning the Apache 2.0 HTTP Server
This is an excellent guide to performance tuning for the best HTTP server available today.
Typo3 - Open Source Content Management System
Typo3 is a powerful CMS that is very easy to set up and start using. It is extensively documented, with great tutorials in html and video format. There is a steep but worthwhile learning curve for doing advanced web design, but there is a large and helpful user community, well as hundreds of extensions.
httperf - Open Source HTTP Load testing tool.
This tool allows you to blast a website with thousands of connection requests. It differs from other tools - Grinder, LoadRunner etc. - in that it is designed to request only one URL. httperf can be used to determine the capacity of the first tier of a website