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Google Publishes C++, Go, Java and Scala Performance Benchmarks
Google has published a paper (PDF) comparing performance of four programming languages, C++, its own language Go, Java and Scala. A team at Google created a "simple and compact" benchmark that didn't take advantage of language-specific features. An algorithm was implemented using each language's "idiomatic container classes, [...]

Web acceptance testing — Mink v1.0.0 documentation
One of the most important parts in the web is a browser. Browser is the window, through which web users interact with web applications and other users. Users are always talks with web applications through browsers.
(tags: development testing)

twitter/finagle @ GitHub
Finagle is a library for building asynchronous RPC servers and [...]

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
This guide is intended to be read by beginners, but if you're average or somewhat advanced you can probably learn a few things too, especially when we start hitting the OTP chapters!
(tags: programming erlang)

Dan Rodney's List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes
I like to figure out the fastest way to do things. I hope these shortcuts help you to become the power user that lies within. These keystrokes should work on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard and many still work on 10.4 Tiger. I will update [...]

jjencode - Encode any JavaScript program using only symbols
Encode any JavaScript program using only symbols
(tags: javascript)

JavaScript Obfuscator- Free JavaScript Obfuscation Tool
Obfuscate JavaScript Code Online for Free
(tags: javascript)

JSONLint - The JSON Validator.
(tags: javascript)

Notes on using pip and virtualenv with Django « SaltyCrane Blog
"… handle dependencies and multiple versions I have wanted to switch over to pip and virtualenv."
(tags: python)

JavaScript - Sherpa | Complete Navigation System (jQuery Edition) - CodeCanyon
As the name suggests, Sherpa is a total solution for all your navigation requirements.
(tags: javascript navigation)

You Got NoSQL in MySQL: Memcached Plugin in MySQL Technology Preview
Oracle released a technology preview this week a new version of MySQL that adds support for a Memcached plugin daemon for accessing InnoDB, MySQL's default storage engine. It's available from MySQL Labs. The plugin daemon is only available for Linux at this time.
(tags: memcached nosql [...]

Making Internet Explorer use position: fixed;
Position: fixed doesn't work in IE …
(tags: html ie)