Web Tech on Roads Less Taken

ESUG 2011 in Edinburgh

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:59:57 +0000

Each year I try to attend at least one developer conference. Earlier OOPSLA was a given but it lost its appeal quite a few years back and now it is not even called OOPSLA anymore. As a die hard Smalltalker I instead attended the ESUG conference in Brest 2009 and it was easily the most rewarding conference I ever have attended! Missed last year in Barcelona but this year I am going to Edinburgh for a week of Smalltalking.

WebOS 3.0 is coming - with Enyo!

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:27:37 +0000

A few weeks ago I joined the Early Access program that HP/Palm has been offering for a while and I have been toying with the new WebOS 3.0 (SDK with emulator) that appeared in public on the 1st of july when the HP Touchpads hit the stores in the US. Since a week I also have a Palm Pre 2 phone running WebOS 2.1, hopefully to be upgraded later to 3.0.

Node.js vs Nginx/Squeak, part 1

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:55:58 +0000

Hmmm, after seeing the Node.js presentation at Dyncon 2011 I couldn’t help installing Nginx and Blackfoot (SimpleCGI) in a Squeak 4.2 image running on the Cog VM to make some performance tests! In fact I started doing that during the presentation. :)

My first run on Nginx/Squeak looked quite unimpressive. Well, one client doing 1300 req/s to a small helloworld was decent although Node.js handled approximately 2x that. With Nginx we have a two tier solution so a factor of 2 is not really surprising in this trivial case. Top showed similar load, both solutions only seem to consume 8-9% of my CPU power on this box, but the Nginx/Squeak solution of course spreads load between them with approximately 1/3 or 1/4 on nginx.