My article on “Essential IT Admin skills for .NET Developers” is published on DNC .NET Magazine May 2013 issue.
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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.
Please subscribe to this FREE magazine at: http://www.dotnetcurry.com/magazine/
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousan...
Here’s the recent presentation made on LIDNUG on scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users. The action starts at 0:02:05.
Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users by Omar AL Zabir
Here’re the slides.
Scaling asp.net websites to millions of users
Browse internet faster and save power...
Internet is full of flash ads nowadays that make page load slower, render slower and consumes more CPU, thus power. If you can browse without having any flash ads or in fact any ads loaded and without any of the tracking scripts – you can browse much faster, scroll through pages much smoother and have more hours from your battery. Nowad [...]
MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge
Microsoft Research arranged MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge on Oct 14, 2011. Beautiful university, made me feel like giving up my job and going back to study. Amazing research work going there, highly thought provoking. The session on DNA programming was out of the world. The most surprising thing I learnt that a 10cm long DNA strand can hold [...]
Prevent ASP.NET cookies from being se...
ASP.NET generates some large cookies if you are using ASP.NET membership provider. Especially if you are using the Anonymous provider, then a typical site will send the following cookies to every request when a user is logged in, whether the request is to a dynamic page or to any static resource:
.DBANON=w3kYczsH8Wvzs6MgryS4JYEF0N-8ZR6aLRSTU9 [...]
Tweaking WCF to build highly scalable...
At 9 AM in the morning, during the peak traffic for your business, you get an emergency call that the website you built is no more. It’s not responding to any request. Some people can see some page after waiting for long time but most can’t. So, you think it must be some slow query or the database might need some tuning. You do the regular ch [...]
