Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

Ever have a performance problem, but don’t know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided). The tool generates an HTML based report which graphically charts important performance counters and throws alerts when thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are originally based on thresholds defined by the Microsoft product teams and members of Microsoft support, but continue to be expanded by this ongoing project. This tool is not a replacement of traditional performance analysis, but it automates the analysis of performance counter logs enough to save you time. This is a VBScript and requires Microsoft LogParser (free download).

Recently I needed to call XMLRPC functions from an ASP server.
There is a nice XMLRPC library available from David Carter-Tod but I had a small problem with it.
It messed up the UTF8 encoding of my strings.
I’m sure that I’m not the only one with this problem, so here’s a simple solution:
Just add the following line at the beginning of the xmlrpc.asp file:

<%@ CodePage=65001 %>

Simple and effective 🙂

O p e n W i k i is an ASP based collaborative CMS, using XML to build user interfaces.
It is using a paradigm which to me is not very intuitive at the first look, but the multiplatform Wiki project has a large armada of followers and they probably know what they’re doing.
You know, 50 billion flies… ;o)