A comparison of desktop memory usage, pitting KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and Plain XFree against each other in the battle for the smallest footprint.

Here’s a quick food-geek comparison of various forms of basil:

• Freeze-dried (in bottles) - expensive, flat taste, not at all visually appealing
• Frozen, store-bought (cubes) - medium-priced, almost-fresh taste, fairly appealing
• Fresh, store-bought - expensive, vibrant, looks good
• Fresh, home-grown - cheap, vibrant, looks great, but a bit of effort
• Dried (in bags, not bulk) - cheap, tasty, looks better than freeze-dried

In most of my dishes I use dried basil, and a bit of cubed/frozen for garnish. Next year I’m hoping to start growing it again.

A detailed “autopsy” of 4 webapps, including line counts (server/client/styles), and comparisons of conversion rates and relative support costs. The most interesting tidbit: conversion rates of 1% are common in the sample set.

A Capistrano HOWTO for Dreamhost hosted domains. And another, and another.

A comparison of the Perl 5 regex and the Thomson NFA string matching engines. Note that the NFA matching is measured in microseconds (and the regex in milliseconds).

A good analysis of exceptions versus error codes, including a set of timed comparisons.

A large comparison of programming language syntax. Handy if you want to build your own, or you want to survey what else is out there.

Sometimes less is more, a comparison of Java and Ruby. Ruby is like Perl in many ways, but with a clean object syntax.

Sometimes less is more, a comparison of several Java and Ruby constructs.

Wikipedia has a comparison of issue tracking systems.