Scott Yang's Playground

Alrond’s technoblog: The performance test of 6 leading frameworks. Very interesting read, as Alrond tested Django (Python), TurbGears (Python), Ruby on Rails 1.1.6/1.2.1 (Ruby), Catalyst (Perl), Code Igniter (PHP) and Symfony (PHP), using various load and memory testing utilities. His conclusion? Django is fast, and can be very light on memory as well. RoR 1.1.6 [...]

One of Guido‘s earliest assignment at Google is to write a mid-size web applications for internal use, and he is sharing his opinions on his research on Python web frameworks. At the end he hasn’t found anything that is satisfactory, even though the requirement is straight forward. By browsing through the comments, despite Python’s “one [...]

Peter Hunt took a look on “How Python wins on the Web”. He argued that framework does not really matter — not all those efforts mimicking Ruby on Rails anyway, as RoR and .NET has already won the hearts of developers. Instead, Pythonists should focus on killer re-usable applications. Here’s what I propose: screw Web [...]

Windows Live “beta” — absolutely the most talked about topic on Internet over the last two days. Heavy “Ajax” that has been all over the web these days which I have started to hate. Doesn’t work on Firefox yet, and it constantly crashed my Internet Explorer. Still, sounds like Microsoft has finally decided to ditch [...]

I always enjoyed using Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Extension when working with web pages on Firefox, and I have always hoped for something similar on Internet Explorer, as in this inperfect world, web developers do need to bow down to some of those inferior but more popular browsers out there. However, my dream has turned [...]

Opera turned 10 last month, and gave away free registration code. I guess they must have been overwhelmed by the response, and now they are giving away their browser for free — forever! They have free Opera for most modern desktop operating systems. Download Opera 8.50 today, otherwise you might not know what you have [...]