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Performance
 I am on my favorite soapbox - "standards" - standards around form filling. Generally speaking, no discussion of standards could be complete without an assessment of the state of play of the not so humble Adobe Portable Document Format or as most of us know it, PDF. I debated the merits...Apr. 20, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 875 |
 Software works the way it was designed because of a group of downtrodden, undervalued and unsung heroes.
Often dismissively described as testers, these champions of precision can be more accurately termed Quality Assurance. They set the bar high and work hard to ensure that the softw...Apr. 20, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,335 |
 In his book Business Agility, Michael Hugos says :Opportunities to make money by being responsive have exploded. There are far more ways to use responsiveness to attract customers than there are ways to use efficiency and low prices. This is because there are so many different kinds of...Mar. 29, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 419 |
 There are two secret sauces for making a web site successful: SEO and WPO. Ok, I guess everyone knows about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) now. SEO was a secret sauce 5-10 years ago. At that time, not everyone was aware of SEO. These who did SEO ended up being very successful. But ha...Jan. 4, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 5,058 |
 Measurement is the most central concept in any performance-related activity. If you are not measuring you are blind. As important as measuring per se is collecting the right measurements. Which metrics are the right ones depends on what you want to do. However there are some general pr...Aug. 16, 2010 12:41 PM EDT Reads: 4,796 |
 Digg, a leading crowd-sourced content discovery and sharing Internet site, recently enlisted the Cotendo Site Acceleration suite - from Cotendo, an innovative CDN and Site Acceleration Services Provider - to speedily display the nearly 20,000 news and video submissions it receives dai...May. 6, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,384 |
 "This investment round is another strong validation for our unique innovation and the business momentum we have experienced since launching our CDN and site acceleration suite," said Ronni Zehavi, co-founder and CEO of Cotendo, as he announced today it has closed a new round of equity ...May. 4, 2010 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,041 |
 Every time I work with one of our .NET customers to help them with managing their application performance I come across the same problems as seen with other clients before: lots of ADO.NET queries, many hidden exceptions in core or 3rd party .NET libraries, slow 3rd party components, i...Nov. 24, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 4,789 |
 I got a lot of great feedback on my post Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered! Dinesh Chandnani decided to do an update to this sample after looking at the feedback and talking to Nikhil Kothari and Wes Haggard from the MEF dev team. The goals for this u...Sep. 12, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,956 |
 Traditional Web development frameworks tightly couple the user interface (UI) and the server. This characteristic has two significant implications: prototyping is difficult and development is server-focused. The emergence and widespread adoption of AJAX has triggered a foundational cha...Aug. 4, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,301 |
 Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) combine proven technologies including JavaScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM) to enable the delivery of interactive Web applications. AJAX-based Web appl...Jul. 31, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,067 |
 Successful AJAX-based applications provide a better end-user experience than traditional Web sites. Fast performance is absolutely essential to deliver on this potential. The large number of technologies and the additional complexity that AJAX adds to the mix creates significant headac...Jul. 22, 2007 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,784 |
