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Monday, July 14, 2008 7:10 PM

Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved

Last week I released a new version of Dropthings , my open source AJAX portal, that shows many fancy Web 2.0 features and showcases extensive use of ASP.NET 3.5, Workflow Foundation, C# 3.0 new language features, custom ASP.NET AJAX extenders, many performance...
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Monday, June 09, 2008 7:08 AM

ensure - Ensure relevant Javascript and HTML are loaded before using them

ensure allows you to load Javascript, HTML and CSS on-demand, whenever they are needed. It saves you from writing a gigantic Javascript framework up front so that you can ensure all functions are available whenever they are needed. It also saves you from...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:31 PM

UFrame: goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined

UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and IFRAME in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a DIV to behave like an IFRAME loading content from any page either static or dynamic. It can load pages having both inline and external Javascript...
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:31 AM

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts in batch

A web page can load a lot faster and feel faster if the javascripts on the page can be loaded after the visible content has been loaded and multiple javascripts can be batched into one download. Browsers download one external script at a time and sometimes...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:29 AM

Fast, Streaming AJAX proxy - continuously download from cross domain

Due to browser's prohibition on cross domain XMLHTTP call, all AJAX websites must have server side proxy to fetch content from external domain like Flickr or Digg. From client side javascript code, an XMLHTTP call goes to the server side proxy hosted...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:49 PM

Fast page loading by moving ASP.NET AJAX scripts after visible content

ASP.NET ScriptManager control has a property LoadScriptsBeforeUI , when set to false , should load all AJAX framework scripts after the content of the page. But it does not effectively push down all scripts after the content. Some framework scripts, extender...
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Saturday, April 05, 2008 6:42 AM

HTML and IFRAME widget for Dropthings

I made two new widgets for Dropthings - one is an HTML widget, that allows you to put any HTML content inside a widget and the other one is an IFRAME widget that allows you to host an IFRAME to any URL. You can see example of these widgets from www.dropthings...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:47 PM

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster....
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:23 PM

My first book - Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

My first book " Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 " from O'Reilly is published and available in the stores. This book explains in detail the architecture design, development, test, deployment, performance and scalability challenges...
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Friday, November 09, 2007 9:01 AM

On-demand UI loading on AJAX websites

AJAX websites are all about loading as many features as possible into the browser without having any postback. If you look at the Start Pages like Pageflakes , it's only one single page that gives you all the features of the whole application with...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:26 PM

10 cool web development related articles in 2007

Here's a list of 10 cool ASP.NET, AJAX and web development related articles and blog posts that I have written this year that you might want to take a look: 13 disasters for production website and their solutions Talks about 13 production disasters...
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