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	Thursday, October 31, 2002

 Hyperlink Histograms

A survey of the A element and attributes in the field. Bob DuCharme did one of those wacky things one does when presented with a big data set. He took Google's sample from their programming contest, and a sample of pulls from Yahoo's random URL, and surveyed how the A element was used. Yes, this is geeky, yet strangely cool.

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This is cool. Not sure what to do with the data. A good resource for culling the best link styles.

7:44:20 PM  comment [] | Topics: Web_Tricks 

I downloaded the Amazon API kit and hope to tinker with it soon. This is what I want: to fetch a list of books and sort by genre (fiction, nonfiction, comtemporary American fiction, classic European fiction, biography, memoir.) It looks like the only way to accomplish this is to read the ISBN number. Question: does an ISBN or ASIN number carry any decriptive meta data, other than the item's id?

More fun with the Amazon API. Using the Wishlist methods for the Amazon API, I've whipped up a 'lite' version of my Amazon.com wishlist. Here's Amazon.com's version. Here's my 'lite' version. More details and options to come later; this is just the quick first run-through. Every time I go to the bookstore, I'll look over my wishlist and write down some titles and names of books that I may want to pick up while there.

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7:18:39 PM  comment [] | Topics: Web_Services 

Benchmarking Web Apps on Apache. Chamas consulting put together a set of Web Application benchmarks on Apache, comparing the throughput and memory usage of a 'Hello World' application written in various frameworks (mod_perl, PHP, JSP, XSLT, custom Apache Modules). As you'd expect, the custom Apache API modules were the top performers, but mod_perl appeared to outdo mod_php, in both throughput and memory use. In XSLT, a JSP page under the Resin container blew away a Tomcat/Cocoon arrangement. However, the XSLT tests did not cache compiled stylesheets. This page will be useful in all the message board fights which Michael Radwin's talk inspires.

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12:06:39 PM  comment [] | Topics: Apache