Unexpected benefits of Precompilation of LINQ
I once had a manager who told me – I can solve any maintenance problem by adding a layer of abstraction. I can solve any performance problem by removing a layer of abstraction. I think LINQ to SQL is...
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There are lots of ways to make your webpages faster and more responsive. YSlow is a great tool to help you find many great ways to make a particular page faster. One of the best things you can do is...
View ArticleThreading with Impersonation in an ASP.NET Project
Every once in a while, you might run into a need to do something that takes some time in a web app, but doesn’t require user interaction. Maybe you are processing an uploaded file (rescaling images,...
View ArticleWeb Application Functional Regression Testing Using Selenium
At Foliotek, we use a rapid development methodology. Typically, a new item will go from definition through coding to release in a month’s time (bucketed along with other new items for the month). A...
View ArticleA Programmers Guide to Performance Tuning SQL Server Queries
First off – I am not a DBA. What follows is just some general tools and tips I’ve found to help write better queries, find queries that are performing poorly, and find some ideas on how you might...
View ArticleImproving Site Performance by Avoiding Unnecessary Postbacks
Today I was once again reminded at how an unnecessary postback can hurt your site’s performance quite significantly. The main purpose of the postback is to send the page you’re viewing back to the...
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