Letter to My Sunday Readers:

I am still in the process of getting visual studio/sql server back in a workable condition. If I could find the misplaced XP cd I would rebuild the whole thing.

Watching a lot of movies though...

Chasing hotfixes!!

It is one of those days: VS does not want to continue working, not even with the hot fix. Reinstall time. It had been a long while since VS coughed up like this.

What else to do if not watching a movie on the mac while xp works?

The mac's codecs need updating.

Wonderful!!!

The S option seems to be a viable option!

Good ol' SQL improved the serialization of tests by leaps and bounds.

Now it takes less than minute and a half to create and store 5,000,000 tests. Before this much time was needed for 100,000.

The S Option

Given the enormous amount of tests can be generated with DevRiot, our old serialization architecture is proving not up-to-par.

SQL seems to be most logical way to handle this.

Well keep you posted. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Less than two minutes...

We have been tweaking around the serializer (getting rid of duplicate IO work) and writing, storing 100,000 tests takes less than 2 minutes. The development costs aren't why they used to be...

A more realistic approach to this feature can be: there is a method that takes a matrix and returns a modified version of it. Given the nature of matrices, a user could create a "base" test batch with a baseline matrix then modify the individual matrices with minimum effort.

Going academic!!!

It is always encouraging to see that not only businesses find the white paper useful. A lot of universities, institutes of technology from all over the world have been downloading the white paper (even for course work)

Even a national police from South America :-?

Well, the serialization server is moving forward nicely, although the weekend was lost with a clogged up laptop. It has been deleting *.tst file for the last 48 hours...

Storage...

I must have to say that developing code to serialize large number of objects can be quite time consuming.

My laptop seems to handle 100,000 or less files quite well. When the number jumps to 1,000,000, it becomes messy molasses to continue working.

Will keep you posted...