September 3, 7 - 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