Month: October 2001

The Abdul Basit Benchmarks: PHP, ASP and JSP. The results are getting monotonous and the winner is obvious – it shows you what an amazing programming team we PHP developers have! A .NET benchmark would be more interesting. Some informal claims have been made that the beta(!) is at least 20% faster than ASP, making… Continue reading The Abdul Basit Benchmarks: PHP, ASP and JSP

Organizational Network Analysis[ONA] is a software supported methodology that reveals the real workings of an organization.  I call this the corporate knowledge network.  K-Logs (Knowledge Management Weblogs — Radio)  let you map a corporation's knowledge network.  How?  Through the following: 1) RSS subscription flow:  This flow will look very much like the organizational hierarchy at first.  Over… Continue reading Organizational Network Analysis

Yaywastaken.  Excellent Webpage widgets (search, calculator, stop watch, etc.).  It even has a Daypop widget. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Abraham Lincoln: “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” [Scripting News]

Adam Logghe.  Here is a users group for hacking the Toyota Prius (the hybrid electric/gas car that gets 55 Mpg). It has 450 members!  Discussions range from nav system replacement to system hacks to get better performance. It isn't long before every car, appliance, and electronic system has a hacking group. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

elearningpost: Grassroots KM through Weblogging. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Dave Winer: The First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Is this a bug?… Continue reading Dave Winer

Mark Pilgrim: Assume we have a can opener. This is my response in a continuing discussion about the idea of companies giving every employee a weblog to be published within the company. John Robb kicked off the idea initially. I responded by saying that it was a great idea in theory, and technologically sound, but… Continue reading Assume we have a can opener

EE Times: Scramble to nail down the home network continues. The 802.11b wireless networking format is gaining acceptance in the consumer market, but some vendors in the home gateway space, hoping to expand the home networking market, are already saying it isn't powerful enough to meet the demands of an converged data and entertainment network.… Continue reading Scramble to nail down the home network continues

InfoWorld: Optimism runs high for residential broadband. In a move to combat the dampening effects of an oversaturated enterprise market, many service providers, application developers, and equipment makers are turning to the residential broadband market as the next big source of revenue. [Tomalak's Realm]