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Firefox 3: an empirical performance study
In the vein of what has been done for openoffice, the imminent release of Firefox 3 gave us the idea to try to test the performance improvements in the version 3 compared to the various Firefox browser versions. Since it’s our preferred platform, all our tests were made on Linux (see platform for a precise […]
Digg taking over Slashdot … says AideRSS
Very much impressed by the recent article on 3d rails on when to publish a post to be noticed we decided to give the AideRSS api a try. This rather new service (the api) lets you dive into the huge amount of posts of any major feed available. They also provide a home made ranking […]
Web frameworks: a free software oriented study
The web2.0 era has put the web application frameworks at the center of the free software (aka FLOSS) community attention. Various opinions (1,2) and performance (1,2) comparisons have been published by free software enthusiasts trying to rank the quality and the potential of different web frameworks.
In this post we use standard data mining and statistical […]