September 3, 7 - 9

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