Friday, November 19, 2010
In a job where you’re responsible for an application and how it performs, the worst thing that can happen is waking up to an email chain from management, detailing how the application is sluggish, unresponsive and in short, broken. You are to be blamed; finger pointing is running at an all-time high and you’ve just caught up to your 20th email.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Late last year, Microsoft announced the launch of their caching support service aka their CDN service, for their ASP.NET AJAX libraries (and the third party jquery libraries) at no cost. Sweet! The problem was, you needed to be up-to-date on ASP.NET 4.0 framework stack in order to take advantage of it. Luckily, the community banned together in an uproar, and shortly thereafter a fix was released. While it’s practically plug-and-play if you’ve running ASP.NET 4.0, some custom code is required to get it to work correctly in the 3.5 framework. I ran across an excellent blog about this, and it