Windows Azure is offering Extra Small Virtual Machines (1 vCPU, 768 MB RAM) at $9/mo, free for first 3 months. Yes, you read it right. You can get a Windows VMs at $9 (until May 31st) and Linux VMs at $15, at the same rate as Amazon Micro Instance, which is free for first year (boo Microsoft!). However, MSDN Ultimate subscribers get 1500h wor [...]
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How to setup a rock solid VM on Windo...
Windows Azure is offering Extra Small Virtual Machines (1 vCPU, 768 MB RAM) at $9/mo, free for first 3 months. Yes, you read it right. You can get a Windows VMs at $9 (until May 31st) and Linux VMs at $15, at the same rate as Amazon Micro Instance, which is free for first year (boo Microsoft!). However, MSDN Ultimate subscribers get 1500h wor [...]
Essential IT Admin Skills for .NET De...
My article on “Essential IT Admin skills for .NET Developers” is published on DNC .NET Magazine May 2013 issue.
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7 hard earned lessons from a Single P...
My talk at London AJAX User group on some performance optimization techniques that can give a javascript rich Single Page Application big boost in terms of page load performance.
See the lecture here:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/7-real-life-lessons-learnt-from-a-single-page-application/mh-6922
Here are the slides.
10 IT Admin skills every .NET develop...
My talk at London .NET User Group on couple of essential skills every .NET developer should have under their belt before going live. If you are a startup or a developer who has to code, deploy and maintain .NET apps on production, you will find these techniques very handy.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/design-architecture/10-it-admin-skill [...]
Using custom font without slowing dow...
Custom fonts are widely used nowadays to give your websites trendy look, but at the great expense of page loading speed. Each custom font has to be downloaded, initialized and applied throughout the page before browser can render anything. If you have a custom font in any CSS, anywhere on the page, most browsers (like IE) will not render anyt [...]
Talk on replicating Windows 8 modern ...
Here’s my talk on my Open Source project Droptiles, which replicates the Windows 8 Start UI on the web using HTML 4, JS, CSS 2. I have given an walkthrough on how to use Twitter Bootstrap to create modern looking UI. Then how to use KnockoutJS to build a web applicatoin following the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. And some handy use of Undersc [...]
Droptiles: Metro style Live Tiles ena...
Droptiles is an Open Source Windows 8 Start like Metro style Web 2.0 Dashboard. It builds the experience using Tiles. Tiles are mini apps that can fetch data from external sources. Clicking on a tile launches the full app. Apps can be from any existing website to customized website specifically built to fit the Dashboard experience. Dro [...]
Codeuml–design UML diagrams as fast a...
Codeuml.com is a web based UML designer where you code the diagram using a special language and it generates the diagram on the fly. It is faster than using any visual designer where you have to drag & drop diagram elements and use mouse to connect them. Codeuml uses the open source plantuml engine to produce diagram from text. You can pr [...]
Caching WCF javascript proxy on brows...
When you use WCF services from Javascript, you have to generate the Javascript proxies by hitting the Service.svc/js. If you have five WCF services, then it means five javascripts to download. As browsers download javascripts synchronously, one after another, it adds latency to page load and slows down page rendering performance. Moreover, th [...]
Memory Stream Multiplexer–write and r...
Here’s an implementation of MemoryStream like buffer manager where one thread can write and many threads can read simultaneously. Each reading thread gets its own reader and can read from the shared stream on its own without blocking write operation or other parallel read operations. It supports blocking Read call so that reader threads can c [...]
