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Fri, Sep 25 2009 15:46

7 tips for for loading Javascript rich Web 2.0-like sites significantly faster

Introduction When you create rich Ajax application, you use external JavaScript frameworks and you have your own homemade code that drives your application. The problem with well known JavaScript framework is, they offer rich set of features which are...
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Mon, May 25 2009 12:44

ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test

Visual Studio 2008 comes with rich Web Testing support, but it’s not rich enough to test highly dynamic AJAX websites where the page content is generated dynamically from database and the same page output changes very frequently based on some external...
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Wed, Apr 8 2009 19:16

Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity

Dropthings – my open source Web 2.0 Ajax Portal has gone through a technology overhauling. Previously it was built using ASP.NET AJAX, a little bit of Workflow Foundation and Linq to SQL. Now Dropthings boasts full jQuery front-end combined with ASP.NET...
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Fri, Oct 3 2008 17:05

Create REST API using ASP.NET MVC that speaks both Json and plain Xml

ASP.NET MVC Controllers can directly return objects and collections, without rendering a view, which makes it quite appealing for creating REST like API. The nice extensionless Url provided by MVC makes it handy to build REST services, which means you...
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Mon, Jul 14 2008 13:10

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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Mon, Jun 9 2008 7:08

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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Sat, May 24 2008 20:31

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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Sat, May 10 2008 1:31

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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Mon, Apr 14 2008 8:29

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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Sun, Apr 6 2008 15:49

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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Sat, Apr 5 2008 0:42

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 http:...
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Wed, Jan 30 2008 15:47

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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Sun, Jan 13 2008 20:23

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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Fri, Nov 9 2007 9:01

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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Tue, Oct 2 2007 18:26

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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