Confessions of an Flash Addict

At the project i’m currently working on we do a lot of testing. Turns out we didn’t know if one of our servers was able to perform under high circumstances and we wanted to perform a stress test.

One of our testers introduced me to Apaches JMeter. What i like a lot is the ability to record a test. It also allows you to test a lot of different protocols, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, Database via JDBC, LDAP, JMS, POP3(S) and IMAP(S) to name just a few.

Make sure you check it out if you want to know how your application will perform with more than 10000 users at the same time!

Just so I don’t forget this: A little snippet to copy text from a textField to the clipboard.

System.setClipboard(myTextFieldInstance.text);

A really long time ago, i created my ‘Funky TAX Calc’ and later on updated it. Now its better than ever

What is it? Its a calculator that calculates the amount of tax for you. I was tired of doing all my invoices by hand so I created this.

Whats new?

• Revamped U.I.
• You can adjust the percentage of TAX (or VAT or BTW) through an XML file in the installer directory.
• Copy every output value seperately to the clipboard with one click!

You can download here or from Adobe’s AIR Marketplace.

And ofcourse is this version also secured

In this version you can also adjust the TAX value. In the install directory is an folder called external; in there is an XML file called config.xml that you can edit. Default is the value set to 1.19 ( or 19 percent ).
On windows the install directory is:
C:\Program Files\Funky TAX Calculator\external\config.xml
On a Mac this is:
/Users/Applications/Funky TAX Calculator -> open package, folder external\config.xml
Then you can change the TAX amount to anything you want.

Have fun with it, any questions in the comments or mail me