Benchmarking Mono ASP.Net vs. PHP – a slight...

We promised some numbers, but I've run into a snag that's slowed down my testing. Originally when we first started toying with the idea of pitting Mono + ASP.Net against PHP, I wrote a quick PHP script that would just make a cheap fopen call to whatever URL you wanted to test, however many times you wanted to hit it. This isn't really load-testing, it's more like a basic timer, and not a very accurate...

Reasons Why You Shouldn't Write Things Like &...

Morgan was trolling newsgroups the other day when he stumbled across a fun flamewar going on in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet. Someone started a topic based on an old blog post entitled "Why PHP is better than ASP". If you read the ensuing thread on the newsgroup, you'll discover why I never read newsgroups. It's like sawing off the top of your head using a dremel and putting rabid Portugese...

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog! I'm the PHP guy. I'm excited to be collaborating on this with my brother, as all of my witty jabs and jests can now be recorded for a public audience, enhancing their finely-honed humiliating edges to deliver zesty slashes of ridicule! So as it's a new year, and this is a new blog, it's totally inappropriate that I start things off with a death announcement. In case you hadn't...