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Weekend must-read articles #1
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.h This week we bring you a collection of articles on JavaScript performance, use of Node.js, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and more. This week’s suggested reading JavaScript Performance : An article by Steve Souder about his speech at the San Francisco JavaScript Meetup, which focused on script loading and async snippets
Web server software NGINX is now bigger than Microsoft IIS
In the latest Netcraft Web Server, for January 2012 , the lightweight open source web server software NGINX amassed more active sites than Microsoft Internet Information Server for the first time. That makes NGINX the second most used web server software in the world right now, only trumped by Apache . Let’s look at the numbers
Apple’s App Store generates 6x the revenue of Android Market in the US
There are presumably more Android phones and devices out there now than there are iPhones (and iPod Touches). However, it seems Android users keep holding their wallets much closer to their chests than iPhone users and iOS users in general. Case in point, according to a new report from Distimo , the App Store for iPhone generates almost 4x as much revenue as Google’s Android Market in the US.
