Do you want to check if all the links on your website work correctly? Moreover, do you want to check how your website behaves when users click on various URLs and open pages in a different order? This is possible with Apache JMeter, but it isn’t easy to use for the first time. I had a lot of problems creating an appropriate test plan, but finally I made it. In this post I will share the results of my work with you.

Do you need to serialize/deserlize huge amount of data in very quick and simple way? Is XML, JSON or other mechanism for serialization too slow or too heavy for you? There is a nice solution for these problems. It is called Google Protocol Buffers. If you don’t know what is it and how it works, read my post below.

Do you want to generate large Excel 2007 spreadsheets in short time and low memory usage? You can have some problems with that. I have tried to do it using Open XML Format SDK. Below you can see my results.

Quite a Big Bang, that is a pretty good expression about a growing phenomenon of social networking. The popularity of sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter is increasing at astonishing rates, especially this last one. Although Twitter still has a long way to go, I am really amazed by its growth rate. Along with the one-millionth word in English language – Web 2.0 – we obtained a decent tool, which can be used in a number of ways. But they also pose new challenges!