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The World Wide Web has many many strands.  I have many spiders which sit on various strands (yahoo/google/twitter/techncorati). I track a number of subjects, brand names, company names etc.  Today my twitter spy brings me news of an acquisition. Intuit is buying Electronic Clearing House (a former employer who booted me).

Now ECHO was a decent company with strong growth. Technology was well respected and well fed. A management shake up occurred and a number of people got canned.  Shortly after I was eliminated (like withing a  week) I interviewed at Intuit card processing services. I saw top management from my firm on the sign in sheet. So I knew something was in the works.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/finance/article/intuit-buy-electronic-clearing-house-17-share_414474_9.html

Both companies seemed to not really have there head on straight in terms of systems operations management. 

So someone didn’t really do their homework in my opinion.  Or maybe more people got canned and new blood was brought in?

Eh Whatever.

So the time has come for me to being thinking about my next job.

I am currently looking at positions with Microsoft and Canonical. Microsoft has a really interesting spot in LA which I believe I would be a good fit for:

http://eefeiv.notlong.com/

Also Canonical has a platform developer position which I am interested in as well:

http://www.ubuntu.com/employment#upd

I need to update my resume and setup some test virtual machines.

So my main project at work right now is setting up automated monitoring for our hosted web applications. I did an extensive amount of research and reading and tried using WebLoad but for a number of reasons it didn’t work out very well. I then started using Jmeter and have been pleasantly surprised.

Some links of interest I have come across

http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-and-jmeter-with-regular-expressions.html
http://jorge.martincuervo.com/2006/10/15/jmeter-and-dwr/

Many more can be found
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=jmeter+ajax&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

I’ll probably do a more comprehensive post and brain dump on this subject later. Needless to say I will have a lot of material for my presentation in February to UUASC.