2011 links no. 2

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Test Silverlight speed or Test CPU speed with Silverlight

While we were developing SilverBench (online multicore CPU benchmarking with Silverlight), I found one interesting benchmark project. It is called Balls / Bubblemark animation test. You can test and directly compare speed / performance for the following programming languages: JavaScript, Silverlight (C#), Flash (ActionScript) and Java. Source code is provided. Project is maintained from 2007 …

Google AdWords (or any third party) tracking with onclick that really works

Disclaimer: this works for me and my clients today (Sep 2010). If Google or one on the web browsers change something, this may break all tracking, so use this on your own risk. Below is working code fragments. In the process of making the code work, there was following problems / symptoms: Chrome and Safari …