Links of the Week June 23 2008
So much stuff going on. Last week I did a lot of performance and scaling research and I think that is reflected here.
Client-Side
Use Ensure to load client scripts on demand - Hey, this is pretty good. If you come to my Front-End performance talks I talk about loading scripts at the bottom of the page, this takes it to another level.
Project Deloto - Keeping with managing Client Scripts, this is a neat Microsoft Research project to manage the downloading of scripts.
Rick Strahl and jQuery - I think Rick does a fantastic job of introducing the ASP.NET world to jQuery.
Other Neat Tips and Tricks with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit - So really I can do that, wow....
Compressing WebResource.axd Files
mBCompression Module
CSS Minifier
Dealing with History and the UpdatePanel
Server-Side
Enable http Compression in IIS 6, also read the Blog I posted last night.
Threading in ASP.NET
Paging Through large sets of data
Send E-Mail Asynchronously
Yahoo has an Updated Web Performance section all Web Developers should read through.
Implementing Tracing to Instrument ASP.NET applications
Avoiding Chatty Tiers in your application
Helpful
Speed up Virtual PCs with Flash Drives - Still need to read the details, but the title is enough to engage me. If you are not using VPCs in your daily routine, you should.
Jim Duffy is teaching a FarPoint Spread class and has some room available.
Randy Walker has a free Certification Test Voucher to give away.