Safari 4 dominates browser benchmark

ZDnet has tested out 7 leading browsers using SunSpider (a suite of JavaScript test) to measure which browser is the quickest. I guess the Safari 4 took the first place beating the other 6 browsers. That is surprising as I thought Google Chrome is the quickest.

Out of curiosity, I took the benchmark test for Safari browser on Mac OS X using the same SunSpider benchmarking tool. Surprisingly, my result is much faster (576.2ms) compared to ZDNet result (967ms). Maybe the internet connection speed has affect on the final result.

Regular Joe might say that why bother taking such benchmarking test? Browser is just browser. Well, the modern web application is heavily loaded with Javascript for various purposes (AJAX, rating, behind the scene things). So using a browser with faster Javascript execution time might come handy. Of course this is not applied to me as I use 5 different browsers in daily basis. For me each browser has their own pros,  cons and some set of tools to complete my daily job. Hunters uses different bullet and weapon to hunt different kind preys don't they?

What's Up Azo?

Maybe some of you might be wondering what's up with me and this blog. It's so quite for quite a while. Well to tell the truth I actually doing my work, integrating publication system with the news websites. I must say it requires lots of XSL transformation than I ever did before. To make it worse, I'm doing it alone. My boss said I could ask help from our principal but every question that I asked would never been answered. So I had to come out with my own solution to deal with most of the problems. That is just unproductive to me.

I also found out that cakePHP framework resemble Rake's architecture. So I decided to get my self busy learning the manual and all cakePHP's stuff. OOP programming in any framework sometime makes you completely lost or perhaps frustrating.

So should I give up with all that troublesome burden type of work? No way. The thing is if you love what you do, eventually all problems will blown away by your burning desire. Trust me on this.