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Heatmaps, iRules Style: Part2

Last week I talked about generating a heat map 100% via iRules, thanks to the geolocation magic in LTM systems, and the good people over at Google letting us use their charting API. This was an outst...
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Well, I'd argue that the biggest single improvements in code quality in the last 20 years are IDE's and unit-testing. (Hey, even some Perl folks have taken up unit-testing! )

 

 

The iRule editor begins to resemble an IDE... so I'd hope some sort of unit-testing framework would be the next step.

 

 

Where would be a good place on devcentral to invite folks into a conversation about that? I'm convinced that a limited proof-of-concept could be done pretty easily.

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