Monday, October 28, 2002

Pet Shop 2.0: Java vs. .NET. The Middleware Company ran a comparison between the Pet Shop v2.0 application for both Java and .NET, both with the same features and both with the same aim at building something to use as a "best practice" sample while still being as responsive and scalable as possible. Pet Shop v2.0 was both company's attempt at winning the comparision run by the Middleware Company. [...] My reading of this report is that .NET kicked Java's hinder in every single measure, from through-put and responsiveness to lines of code and lines of configuration required to build and run the app. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] It's pretty interesting how the Middleware Company's J2EE implementation is like 25 times faster than Sun's. Understandable that it's a reference implementation but... Page 47 has the "$/transactions per second": J2EE is $1,305 or $4,722 (per TPS!), while Windows is $468 and $316. J2EE is 14,000 lines of code. .NET is 2000 lines... .NET so rules! 11:31:24 PM    comment []

Two-thirds of the movie's audience was male, and young men from 17 to 24 accounted for nearly half the crowds, according to distributor Paramount. [...] "We didn't expect to exceed $20 million for a film called 'Jackass.' Especially a film with no plot, no Oscar-caliber performances and no real writing," said Van Toffler, MTV president. -- CNN "No plot, no Oscar-caliber performances, and no real writing"? Good thing Hollywood doesn't normally make those... 10:32:16 AM    comment []

A troll pointed it out, but of the 10 stories on the Slashdot homepage, 9 of them are by Timothy. That'd be an interesting Excel/Gnuplot graph: stories/editor/day... 1:58:54 AM    comment []

I think I'm going as Steve Jobs for Halloween... The real question is, will anyone notice? 1:27:34 AM    comment []