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Increase ASP Dot Net Website Loading Speed Using Web GZip Compression

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Sadly a large number ASP.Net web applications on the internet often do not use HTTP GZIP compression.
Most modern browsers support GZIP compression. The benefits of compression are huge essentially significantly reducing the size of the HTML content that needs [...]

[ More ] February 27th, 2009 | 6 Comments | Posted in Code Samples |

Offloading Heavy Processing In Dot Net Web Applications

Executing heavy long running processing jobs within the application page lifecycle hardly ever desirable from a user experience point of view.
After all no user likes to click a button and wait 5 minutes for a response.
So how can we handle this?
This is where IIS application pools comes in to save the day. Lets take a [...]

[ More ] February 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Software Development |

High Performance Remoting for Network Computing

“remoting remoting everywhere not a drop to drink.” This is often the case when it comes to finding a remoting solution for network computing applications.
The primary remoting requirement for network computing applications is maximum throughput of transactions.
Just to make this clear consider the following two scenarios:
1) An EDI application that executes 10,000 transactions per hour [...]

[ More ] February 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Software Development |

The Information Technology Bozo Explosion

So what exactly is a bozo explosion ?
Since I just made up that term lets define it.
Bozo Explosion: An ever increasing congregation of Bozo’s within a single demographic.
The Information Technology Bozo
The I.T. Bozo comes in two flavors:

The Multi Skill I.T. Bozo.
The Got No Clue I.T. Bozo.

First the Multi Skill I.T. Bozo – A Work of [...]

[ More ] February 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in I.T. |