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(Originally posted 2012-03-25.) As previously discussed I’m often in a situation of trying to make sense of a set of job-related SMF data. Even though it may be your own installation’s data, you’re probably confronted with what I like to call “a journey of discovery” occasionally, too. I’m always looking for what I can discernContinue reading “You Might Just Be A Clone If…”

(Originally posted 2012-03-23.) You’d think it would be pretty simple to draw a line. Right? This post discusses an enhancement I’d like to make to my current reporting – and I’m pretty sure that technically I can do it. The question is whether I should. Consider my current "Memory by address space within Service Class"Continue reading “Drawing The Line”

(Originally posted 2012-03-22.) Don’t reach for your dictionary to look up the single word in the title: I just made it up. 🙂 But I hope it’ll make sense as a term once you’ve read this post. Once in a while I like to post on Social Media. Looking back it seems to be aboutContinue reading “Whocasting?”

(Originally posted 2012-03-14.) It’s not often I write a blog post that’s essentially a link to a web page. But on this occasion I will. Here’s the link: Packer Advocates the Human Side of Social Business. I hope you also read Willie Favero’s similar piece: Favero Shares His Secrets for Social Media Success. I don’tContinue reading “C’mon In The Water’s Lovely :-)”

(Originally posted 2012-03-10.) I’ve just published this presentation on Slideshare. You can get it from here. Normally I’d give a presentation at least once before publishing it. Unfortunately the event I was going to present it at earlier this week was cancelled. So I’m experimenting a little by publishing it first. As with all presentationsContinue reading “Published on Slideshare: I Know What You Did Last Summer”

(Originally posted 2012-03-08.) Now with free map :-), this is the concluding part of a four part series on batch parallelisation, with especial focus on cloning. In previous parts I discussed: Motivation Classification Issues This part wraps up with thoughts on implementation. I’m going to break it down into: Analysis Making Changes Monitoring While thereContinue reading “I Said “Parallelise” Not “Paralyse” Part 4 – Implementation”

(Originally posted 2012-03-04.) Part 1 and Part 2 were, in my opinion a little abstract. But I think they needed to be: They set the scene for why parallelising your batch can be important. They gave some vocabulary and semantics to help structure our thoughts. Now we need to go a little deeper. Let’s startContinue reading “I Said “Parallelise” Not “Paralyse” Part 3 – Issues”

(Originally posted 2012-02-26.) Given I’m not paid to blog, and given I’ve no real motivation to maximise my blog post count, the frequency of posting is just "what it happens to be". In that spirit this post isn’t about how to "game" blogging statistics (and it itself isn’t a gratuitous attempt to increment the countContinue reading “The Sign Of The Four – How Mind-Mapping Turned One Blog Post Into More”

(Originally posted 2012-02-26.) I hope you don’t get the idea I’m overly into rigour, talking about Classification. But I think it has to be done – to provide terminology for this series of posts. This is the second of four posts on Batch Parallelism, following on from Motivation. If I think about how parallelism worksContinue reading “I Said “Parallelise” Not “Paralyse” Part 2 – Classification”

(Originally posted 2012-02-19.) I have enormous trouble pronouncing "parallelise" right – and not saying "paralyse". It’s true, and I bet many of you have the same trouble (sober or not). It’s on a par with "red lorry yellow lorry" or "the Leith Police dismisseth us". 🙂 But it’s a word I think we’re going toContinue reading “I Said “Parallelise” Not “Paralyse” Part 1 – Motivation”