Archive for the 'comparison' Category

Programming Language Popularity

Friday, May 6th, 2011

A websites that ranks different programming languages by comparing statistics from search engine queries, news articles and job board postings.

A Tale of Four Kernels

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Quote from the article: “Therefore,
the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is
that open source development approaches do not produce
software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software
development.”

A subjective code quality …

How does FreeSWITCH compare to Asterisk? | FreeSWITCH

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Asterisk vs FreeSWITCH (from lead freeswitch developer’s POV)

HTML5 video player [comparation table]

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

"We are trying to help you decide which HTML5 video-based player to choose for your web project. This site will hopefully be updated regularly. "

version control – What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git? – Stack Overflow

Monday, December 27th, 2010

thread on stackoverflow that contains several useful links comparing git and hg (mercurial)

Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

feel like getting a new keyboard — check out that article and make sure to read comments

Robert Haas: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, Part 1: Table Organization

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

An article from a well-known PostgreSQL developer comparing MySQL InnoDB and PostgreSQL table structures

We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. at Mixpanel Engineering

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2

JBoss, Geronimo, or Tomcat? – JavaWorld

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

notes (mostly feature list) on open source java app servers

Monitoring Cloud Computing Performance with PRTG: CPU, Disk, Memory Speed Comparison of Amazon EC2 Instance Types – From The CEO’s Blog

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances