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Monday, June 30, 2008 9:12 AM

Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance problems

There are several problems with ASP.NET MVC application when deployed on IIS 6.0: Extensionless URLs give 404 unless some URL Rewrite module is used or wildcard mapping is enabled IIS 6.0 built-in compression does not work for dynamic requests. As a result...
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Monday, April 07, 2008 2:17 PM

Reduce website download time by heavily compressing PNG and JPEG

PNG and JPEG are two most popular formats for web graphics. JPEG is used for photographs, screenshots and backgrounds where PNG is used for all other graphics need including cliparts, buttons, headers, footers, borders and so on. As a result, these two...
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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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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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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:46 AM

A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in performance degradation

If you are using SQL Sever Server standard edition 64 bit on a Windows 2003 64bit, you will frequently encounter this problem where SQL Server says: A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in performance degradation...
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Monday, January 01, 2007 11:21 AM

What to do when you kill your database with your own hand

Couple of months ago, we had an interesting day. It was a bright summer morning. We were all in the office doing our regular work. Developers writing codes, QA testing the site. We were all happy and smiling as there was no major bug. Some were drinking...
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Monday, August 28, 2006 7:53 AM

Cost effective, failsafe, 2 server load balanced web & DB servers

We were very poor when we first started Pageflakes so we needed a really cheap but fully reliable deployment configuration. The requirement was: Fail safe. If a server goes down, another one can take over without users noticing Database must be mirrored...
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