Friday, October 06, 2006

Code metrics for Identity

Google's Code Search allows you to search public code.

My analysis of the results when searching on identity-related terms (raw data below)
  • Ideally, the numbers for identity & privacy wouldn't be different by an order of magnitude.
  • Everybody always goes on about how much Scott Cantor has does for SAML but he's only got 50 more hits than me!
  • Related to the above, apparently the Javascript rollover script I stole and tweaked 3 years ago doesn't count as 'code'.
  • There are far fewer 'stupid users' than we might otherwise have assumed.
  • Similar to 'existentialism', 'user-centric' doesn't appear to manifest itself in code (this one was a shocker to me).
  • Many American developers use snippets of the Declaration of Independence as a test string.
user ~ 2,870,000
identity ~ 301,000
privacy ~ 57,000
shib - 31,500
liberty ~ 28,600
SAML ~ 14,000
OpenID ~ 10,000
pseudonym - 6,000
liberty alliance ~ 5000
ID-FF ~ 100
stupid user ~ 100
YADIS ~ 100
user-centric ~ 100
existentialism ~ 50
scott cantor ~ 50
WS-Federation ~ 7
paul madsen ~ 0

1 comment:

Conor P. Cahill said...

Check out "Conor Cahill" :-).