Palermo4 : question

ASP.NET AJAX Class in Dallas, Texas

Palermo4 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:28:19 GMT

I am returning to Phoenix today after teaching ASP.NET AJAX in Dallas, Texas. Thanks to everyone who attended the class!

About 50% of my students were from the same company, and were already using AJAX technologies. One in particular had experience with Prototype, and made some excellent observations regarding the two platforms.

A concern raised about the Microsoft AJAX implementation was the total size of scripts downloaded to client. One of the suggestions provided by Microsoft is to enable compression in the web.config file as so:

However, the following snapshot is taken from a forum discussion that makes it appear that compression is only enabled for IE7?

This raises the question: Are there other alternatives for managing script size issues in ASP.NET AJAX that will work across the major browsers used today?

Online Confession

Palermo4 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:38:05 GMT

After all these years, I finally made my first purchase from ebay.

I am curious... Has anyone else on this list *not* used ebay before?

Disk Defragmenter in Vista

Palermo4 — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:42:48 GMT

I am breaking one of my blog rules (which I will blog about later). I want to pose a question to the technical community: Does disk defragmenting in Vista have any better UI than below:

If this is all I get, is there any decent 3rd party disk defrag utilities for Vista?