Eyeball Deep
I’m eyeball deep in writing some code right now, I’m going to have to make this a quick and dirty entry. Sorry….
I’m writing a script to take thousands of emails (one per file) and push them through a mail server, capture some data along the way, and save that data into a database. It’s all for performance testing, and capturing some other data (which is a company secret, so I won’t post it here.) I’m to do this with an old product, and a new product to see how the new product rates next to the old product when put under the same loads.
I know. It doesn’t sound glorious or exciting, but I love doing work like this. Automating tasks with Perl is one of the best things out there. It’s reminding me of when I wrote some automation tools for a past employer. I don’t have time to talk about that right now, so I’ll post about it later.
