January 2010
2 posts
Web Application Development with Tornado
crad:
I recently finished a rewrite of privatepaste.com in python using Tornado as the web framework. There are multiple reasons why I decided to use Tornado instead of something like Django, cherry.py or web.py, all of which I’ve previously used. One of the main reasons for my choice to switch to Tornado was due of its feature-rich yet light-weight nature. In addition, the benchmarks and...
The Internet 2009 in Numbers
hoosierdiva:
Email
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
100 million – New email users since the year before.
81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
24% – Increase in spam since last year.
200...