One of those moments where an interview question turns into a research project, or is it really a bake off? The simple problem is demonstrate an algorithm to intersect two lists of numbers, fundamentally it’s a question about using modern interpreted languages and their associative array bits to make a simple …

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This is not a scientific nor rigorious test… But, here’s some interesting data for people to chew on. I’ve got a production site built using the Zend Framework and a beta site built using django. What’s interesting is the “Time spent downloading a page” graphs from Google Webmaster Tools. The Zend Framwork Graph — …

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Had a 7GB text file that I needed to run some parsing on (to prepare for a DB import). As part of my habit I pulled out perl and whipped up a quick program to parse and generate some loadable files. While watching it run I got to thinking about … why … why perl (yes, I know habbits are hard to break). So while watching …

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Was reading a posting about Trends in web development according to Google one section got me me thinking. Their trends show end user behavior as it relates to popularity. However, when I think about language popularity I think in terms of programs written or lines of code produced… The Google trend I think is a …

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