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As I have immersed myself into modern web and mobile architectures I have come to one conclusion, multipage web sites are dead men walking. Constant request, retrieve, react is not a competitive application design going forward. The combination of high
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Last week Amazon announced its tablet, called the Kindle Fire . But what was probably the bigger news of course is the Fire’s browser, Silk. By now you have heard Amazon is taking a new approach to make the web faster by leveraging their EC2 server infrastructure
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Last week Google released a new web page speed analysis tool called Page Speed . Page speed is one of the primary factors that weighs into visitor satisfaction. If you were not aware Google and the other search engines actually measure this as part of
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One of my favorite web development books is Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites from O’Reilly. In fact I created a session I give from time to time at Code Camps and never have enough time! Yesterday’s DotNetRocks episode is an hour long discussion
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One of the most commonly missed features of setting up a web server is configuring compression. All modern Browsers support both GZip and Deflate compression for content. All commercially viable web servers support GZip and Deflate compression types.
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Thanks to everyone for attending my presentation at the Raleigh Code Camp . I was surprised at the turn out and you guys asked a lot of great questions. I wanted to post my slide deck for you guys. I will post a little sample project in the next day or
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What a day! I have to tell you when I decided to speak at the NJ Code Camp I was not expecting to have 15 solid hours of great .NET learning and fellowship. I made a lot of new friends and learned some valuable things about .NET technologies, how they
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At the Richmond Code Camp I went over some of my tips and tricks to get ASP.NET to perform as fast as possible. One of the biggest things you have to do is reduce the size of your ViewState and also move it to the bottom of the page . It was brought to
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