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2009
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iPhone Apps using Microsoft .NET
My good friend Wally McClure has written a short eBook on “Building iPhone and iPod touch Applications for the .NET/C# Developer with MonoTouch”.
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Sydney Architecture User Group – Next Meeting: Why Windows Azure is not just Generic Brand Web Hosting
The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also indicate your intention to come by selecting the RSVP option (which would be really nice if you did :-) )
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Sample chapter from upcoming book
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.
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SAUG – Sydney Architecture User Group
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 sponsorship graciously provided by our company Datacom.
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ASP.NET v4 Presentation Deck and Demo’s
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).
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2 TechEd Interviews are live
Its been a long time since I wrote a blog post but I have been a very busy boy.
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Silverlight 3 and WCF Faults
On a previous project that utilised WCF and Silverlight 2, I began implementing an error handling strategy that was going to rely on certain FaultExceptions being propagated to the Silverlight client. Well it turned out that Silverlight 2 does not support FaultExceptions so that was not going to fly and a custom solution was built.
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Getting better performance in web apps with a few lines of script
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.
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FromTheGrey – Arts Site
Recently, I have been working on creating an arts based website called “FromTheGrey” at http://FromTheGrey.com
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AjaxView – Javascript profiling
A little while ago, I posted about a tool called AjaxView to allow you to profile javascript code within your web applications.
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Regaining results from a performance test run
I have been doing a lot of performance testing lately, and one of the worst things that can happen during a performance run, is when you don’t get any results. Performance testing is expensive, from a time and resources perspective, so getting results from a run is paramount.
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Animated SiteMap Ajax Control
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.
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EOAST #4 – Evolution of a software thingy Part 4
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.
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Some interesting links for ASP.NET
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.