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Like at any other company, the email accounts and feedreaders of our developers are always overflowing with new articles from around the web. Here's a quick set of some of the links creating discussion among bbc.co.uk development teams this week.

Asynchronous Servers in Python

There has been a lot of hype around the project over the last couple of months. Whilst not a brand new concept, JavaScript does seem particularly well suited as a language to the event based model of I/O. Nicholas Piël has written a detailed comparison of and it will be good to see this expanded to cover frameworks in other languages such as Node.

Alt and Title Display in Browsers

Steve Faulkner from the has done a thorough examination of the in the major browsers. We really liked the methodology here, taking a discrete problem and covering it completely, rather than trying to boil the ocean.

iPlayer Stats

Over on the internet blog Paul Murphy gives an overview of the latest iPlayer usage stats. Particularly noteworthy is the uptake of iPlayer on new platforms such as Wii and Playstation 3, which now makes up 6% of requests for TV programmes.

Woosh - JavaScript Performance Testing

The Glow guys are hard at work on Glow 2 and to make sure it's as fast as it can be, they've developed a speed testing framework. Frances from the team has written an .