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Sample chapter from upcoming book
Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:59 PM

There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET. This sample chapter is just a teaser and the book itself goes into great detail about how to setup... Read More...

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Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, General, Community News, Architecture, Performance

SAUG – Sydney Architecture User Group
Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:28 AM

The first meeting of the Sydney Architecture User Group is going to be held on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, form 6.00pm to 8.00pm, at the Grace Hotel , 77 York st, Sydney. ( Link to map ) It will be housed in one of the very nice function rooms they have. Food and drink will be provided. Omar Besiso and myself will be hosting the event, with all funding and... Read More...

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Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Web 2.0, General, Community News, Architecture

ASP.NET v4 Presentation Deck and Demo’s
Friday, October 02, 2009 1:13 PM

My ASP.NET v4 New Features overview presentation that I delivered at Sydney Deep .Net User Group ( http://sdnug.org ) is available for download here ( http://sdnug.org/presentations/200910.zip ). Note: If the above link returns a 404 error, please try here instead. It covers almost every single new feature that will be covered in ASP.NET v4 in the next release... Read More...

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Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, General, Community News, ASP.NET AJAX, MVC

2 TechEd Interviews are live
Friday, September 11, 2009 3:45 PM

Its been a long time since I wrote a blog post but I have been a very busy boy. This week I have been at TechEd Australia on the sunny Gold Coast in Queensland. I have been keeping a pretty low profile this year but I did participate in 2 interviews that are now available for viewing or download from the Microsoft online site. The first one is an interview with... Read More...

by Glav | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, TechEd, Videocast, Architecture

Getting better performance in web apps with a few lines of script
Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:53 PM

We had a situation where a web application was utilising near 100% of CPU all the time under light load and it was proving very hard to reduce this significantly through code optimisation. We were performance testing and profiling, but only seeing marginal gains. The infrastructure that was hosting the web application was as follows: Virtual Server (Hosted via... Read More...

by Glav | 9 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, IIS, Performance

FromTheGrey – Arts Site
Sunday, May 10, 2009 1:08 PM

Recently, I have been working on creating an arts based website called “ FromTheGrey ” at http://FromTheGrey.com Its a site devoted to showcasing the pictures and artwork created by my wife Michele. Previously, Michele has been very reluctant to showcase these pieces, but I really like them, as do many others I know, so it took some time and coaxing to convince... Read More...

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Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, General, ASP.NET AJAX, jquery

AjaxView – Javascript profiling
Sunday, May 10, 2009 11:25 AM

A little while ago, I posted about a tool called AjaxView to allow you to profile javascript code within your web applications. Well, I was contacted by Adam who is working on this tool about its latest incarnation. It appears had a lot of work done to it, and now looks quite slick and is really nice to use. Previously, it was quite raw in use and also with the... Read More...

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Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Web 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, jquery

Animated SiteMap Ajax Control
Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:18 PM

Today, I finally released on Codeplex a control that I had been working on over a year ago, called the Animated SIteMap Control . Its an AJAX Control toolkit control and it has been prototype form for a very long time now. I had planned on releasing it into the AJAX Control toolkit but I got sidetracked and haven’t touched this in over a year. It works fine and... Read More...

by Glav | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, Component, Controls, Community News, ASP.NET AJAX, Control Toolkit, AJAX Control toolkit

EOAST #4 – Evolution of a software thingy Part 4
Monday, January 26, 2009 11:45 AM

So its been ages since my last post on this pet project of mine. Its time to get down to the nitty gritty on this and see if it is actually working the way I want it to. Hopefully, you have read parts one , two and three in previous posts to get a good idea on what I am trying to achieve. Basically, its a collect, store and display mechanism to store almost any... Read More...

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Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, WPF, WCF, Architecture

Some interesting links for ASP.NET
Friday, January 09, 2009 4:29 PM

Its been a while since I have done any technical stuff as I have been on holidays, relaxing, and generally a lot of nothing. Certainly nothing technical related and have really enjoyed spending time with friends and family. Over this period, Wally has produced some good material around ASP.NET which I feel obligated to share with you….. (ok, so maybe Wally coerced... Read More...

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Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET, podcast, Web 2.0, Community News, ASP.NET AJAX

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