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...

First impessions of mono

I've never really been much of an open source guy, but damn if I'm not ecstatic about mono. I've been following the project for a while and loved the concept, so when it came time to re-write this web project I'm working on (originally written in PHP) I though it's the perfect opportunity. Right now we've got mono 1.2.6 running on an ancient machine with CentOS 4.4, and mono itself seems...

PHP vs .Net – The Beginning

Blog status: activated! Just in the nick of time too. Or is it? Doing a google search for "PHP vs .Net" brings up -- as result #1 -- an article from SitePoint discussing the merits of the technologies. From… 2002.  The only blog that makes the Top 10 results bravely states that no one has any idea what they're talking about, followed by half a paragraph of useless blather and a recommendation for...