September 3 - 9

September 3 - 9

Accomplished tasks

UT mobile
  • experimenting with m4 mobile site in x86 environment
    • updated to latest version of WURFL PHP library – literally the head of their Subversion repository – to address known issues with caching libraries
      • ran JMeter against WURFL using memcache file and cache persistence
      • there are still issues trying to run a JMeter test against WURFL with the APC caching library using revision 518 of the WURFL PHP library
    • currently, I am setting up Tera-WURFL as a comparison to the memcache and straight-up file based persistence strategies
  • updates to Glenda and Lewis throughout the week
UTForge
  • granted a number of graduate students in labs on campus the developer entitlement so that they may create projects in UTForge
  • assisted Robert in tracking down the log messages related to a project and repository that was deleted by a PyPE user from within UTForge
  • other user support and correspondence
JIRA
  • granted Larry administrative access to the jira virtual servers and the Web interface for ITS
  • user support, correspondence
University Wiki Service
  • scheduled a maintenance window Tuesday, September 14 for:
    • migration to CAT-I MySQL database
    • production upgrade to Confluence version 3.3.1
  • granted Larry sudo access to the wikis virtual servers and the Confluence Web interface
  • user support, correspondence
Economics research experiments
  • meeting with Jason regarding time estimates for re-architecture bid; reviewing bid information afterwards

Upcoming tasks

UT mobile
  • continue working on Tera-WURFL for file and cache persistence
  • compare results to memcache and file-based data
University Wiki Service
  • discuss with Tom setting up a multi-node cluster that utilizes Systems' load balancer for future growth of UWS
UTForge
  • write script(s) that will upgrade all of the repositories to 1.6.x standards
  • fully test 1.6.12 functionality in production environment
JIRA
  • renew SSL certificate by 09/23/2010
  • estimate hours for SIS contract