Comments on: Now we’re flying! http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/ A blog about our thoughts on entrepreneurship, teamwork, our services, the Web and anything we find interesting. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:26:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-65044 Adam Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:45:17 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-65044 Momchil, Thanks, I'll take a look at those two. Best regards, Adam Momchil,
Thanks, I’ll take a look at those two.

Best regards,
Adam

]]> By: Momchil http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-65042 Momchil Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:47:11 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-65042 Hey Adam, Selenium is indeed a great tool for automated regression tests. It has a solid community and support base and lots of QA departments use it since it is free and at the same time provides a decent set of features. If you would like to use something "more professional", two good options are HP's QTP (quick test pro) or Borland's SilkTest. Those will definitely cost you money, but many would argue they are worth every penny. Cheers, Momchil Hey Adam,

Selenium is indeed a great tool for automated regression tests. It has a solid community and support base and lots of QA departments use it since it is free and at the same time provides a decent set of features.

If you would like to use something “more professional”, two good options are HP’s QTP (quick test pro) or Borland’s SilkTest. Those will definitely cost you money, but many would argue they are worth every penny.

Cheers,

Momchil

]]> By: Arjen Lentz http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-65034 Arjen Lentz Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:08:05 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-65034 table_cache is for MyISAM tables, I'm quite surprised you're using MyISAM as your main storage engine - you mentioned invoicing, too. MyISAM is not ACID compliant, and is not that safe with crash recovery (depends somewhat on the rest of the config, it's not absolute anyway). Therefore, with modern machines with enough RAM and such, InnoDB is generally recommended as the default storage engine. With MyISAM you're also relying on the disk cache for row-level caching, and of course there's the table-level locking for updates/deletes; all this affects performance, in the latter case for reasons of concurrency bottlenecks. Regards, Arjen. Director, Open Query (http://openquery.com.au) MySQL training & expertise table_cache is for MyISAM tables, I’m quite surprised you’re using MyISAM as your main storage engine – you mentioned invoicing, too.
MyISAM is not ACID compliant, and is not that safe with crash recovery (depends somewhat on the rest of the config, it’s not absolute anyway).
Therefore, with modern machines with enough RAM and such, InnoDB is generally recommended as the default storage engine.

With MyISAM you’re also relying on the disk cache for row-level caching, and of course there’s the table-level locking for updates/deletes; all this affects performance, in the latter case for reasons of concurrency bottlenecks.

Regards, Arjen.
Director, Open Query (http://openquery.com.au)
MySQL training & expertise

]]> By: Adam http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-65027 Adam Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:56 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-65027 While I'm asking, do you use Selenium or another front end testing tool for regression testing? We're looking for something other than Selenium. While I’m asking, do you use Selenium or another front end testing tool for regression testing? We’re looking for something other than Selenium.

]]> By: Adam http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-65026 Adam Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:27:11 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-65026 Thanks Rich! Thanks Rich!

]]> By: Rich Lafferty http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-65025 Rich Lafferty Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:07:36 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-65025 Adam: The graph above is from <a href="http://www.alertsite.com/" rel="nofollow">AlertSite</a>, who we use for performance monitoring. Adam: The graph above is from AlertSite, who we use for performance monitoring.

]]> By: Adam http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-65024 Adam Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:04:35 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-65024 What software do you use for that testing? What software do you use for that testing?

]]> By: David Ledgerwood http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-64450 David Ledgerwood Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:30:26 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-64450 We're a leadership development consultancy and I just wanted to take a chance to applaud your transparent handling of this issue. As others have said I can count on one hand the number of times a vendor has just explained the bare technical details to me. It's much appreciated. I continue to be a big fan. We’re a leadership development consultancy and I just wanted to take a chance to applaud your transparent handling of this issue. As others have said I can count on one hand the number of times a vendor has just explained the bare technical details to me. It’s much appreciated. I continue to be a big fan.

]]> By: John Saxon http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-64440 John Saxon Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:01:59 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-64440 I found this claymation site that really helps give clear explanations of complicated issues.I know colored charts can help, but what if freshbooks was to implement a animation video that would help even the most elementary internet user gain a grasp of your technology. Just a thought. I found this claymation site that really helps give clear explanations of complicated issues.I know colored charts can help, but what if freshbooks was to implement a animation video that would help even the most elementary internet user gain a grasp of your technology. Just a thought.

]]> By: francis http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2008/09/09/now-were-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-64437 francis Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:51:59 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/?p=1732#comment-64437 You guys simply rock.......! You guys simply rock…….!

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