At //build and today at VS Live I gave a talk about performance optimizing ASP.NET web applications using bundling, minification and other cool tricks. See the video presentation The Visual Studio 2010 extension I used were: Web Essentials Image Optimizer Web Standards Update The demo website can no (...)

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The Dangers of Implementing Recurring Background Tasks In http://t.co/hjx3AiPy http://t.co/LrnjScdw

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Romaria

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Microsoft to Improve Support for Hadoop

The company will work on Hadoop distributions for Azure and Windows Server. (...)

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Architectural Tragedy of the Commons http://t.co/FcEVyJ3Q

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Architectural Tragedy of the Commons

From Wikipedia: The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term inte (...)

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RT @hotdogsladies: The technologies you choose to use say a lot about you. But raging about the technologies others choose to use says ...

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Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript

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RT @Woork: Interesting reading: Wrapping Your Head Around Canvas: Part 1 http://t.co/W210oVVa > RT @mlane

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Peerbind – A JS API For Interconnected Websites

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Steve Jobs

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RT @TechCrunch: Alien Dalvik 2.0 Launches, Adds Support For Running Android Apps on iPad http://t.co/qJRTe2MA by @sarahintampa

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Alien Dalvik 2.0 Launches, Adds Support For Running Android Apps on iPad

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RT @JamesKovacs: Dear Visual Studio, When I hit F5 and there is a compile error, why would I want to run the last good build, which does ...

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@RoyOsherove Well... He didn't see that one comming :)

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer

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Treat people as you would like to be treated. Karma's only a bitch if you are.

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HTML5 Whiteboard Magnets http://t.co/Sh2OCPQa. Thanks @cameronmoll

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RT @Hagablog: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right” — Steve Jobs. The world will miss you

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3 lines of code and Redis is up and running. I like it. Simple. As it should be :)

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RT @codinghorror: Deleriously geeky -- the Imperial March on dual 3.5" floppies. http://t.co/YLxg6WXS

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FACEBOOK & YOU

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Delicious Bookmarking Relaunches Sans Yahoo

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RT @IDAIRELAND: Ireland is trending. Twitter to establish international office in Dublin. #idairl

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HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS

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Essential JavaScript Namespacing Patterns

In this post, I'll be discussing both intermediate and advanced patterns and approaches for namespacing in JavaScript. We're going to begin with the latter as I believe many of my readers have some prior experience in this area. If however you're new to namespacing with the language and (...)

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SSMS Tools Pack 2.0 is out! With huge productivity booster features that will blow your mind and ease your job even more.

What better way to end the summer and start those productive autumn days ahead than with a fresh new version of the SSMS Tools Pack. This is a big release with two new features that are huge productivity boosters. First new feature are Tab Sessions. Every SQL tab you open is saved every N (default 2 (...)

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Introducing App Sites

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jQuery Tops Google Trends

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Microsoft Excises Flash And Plugins From Metro Internet Explorer In Windows 8

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ASP.NET MVC 4 Enhancements to Default Project Templates

The ASP.NET MVC 4 provides an additional project teamplate for Mobile Web Application. The new Project dialog is shown below The project templates that are used to create new ASP.NET MVC 4 projects have been updated and provide a nice and modern looking user interface. The home page using the new p (...)

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If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you

I am busy hiring people now, and it got me thinking a lot about the sort of things that I want from my developers. In particular, I was inundated in CVs, and I used the following standard reply to help me narrow things down. Thank you for your CV. Do you have any projects that you wrote that I can r (...)

136 days, 12 hours, 30 minutes ago Source: Google Reader

Asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running connections with SignalR

I've been spending some time exploring asynchrony and scale recently. You may have seen my post about my explorations with node.js and iisnode running node on Windows. Every application has different requirements such that rules to "make it scale" don't work for every kind of applicati (...)

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Amazon Web Services Debuts ElastiCache

New caching service will improve performance for cloud applications. (...)

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The Technical Friend's Essential Maintenance Checklist for Non-Technical Friend's Windows Computer

I visited a friend today and noticed their computer. Of course I did, that's what we do. It was, as are all non-technical computer friends' computers, a 3 year old gray Dell mini tower with a 17" flat screen. In fact, these are the ONLY computers that non-technical computer friends own, yo (...)

156 days, 13 hours, 16 minutes ago Source: Google Reader

Introducing ORM Profiler. Beta-testers wanted!

The past few months, I've spent developing (together with Walaa Atef) a general ORM / Data-access profiler for .NET, simply called ORM Profiler. (How's that for a pronounceable name, eh? ;)) As we're now feature complete and about to start the beta-cycle, we're looking for beta-testers. To help you (...)

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NServiceBus and RavenDB – better together!

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ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap

It only feels like yesterday that we shipped ASP.NET MVC 3 followed by a release of updated Visual Studio tooling for ASP.NET MVC 3. But we’re not ones to sit on our hands for long and are busy at work on ASP.NET MVC 4. In fact, almost immediately after shipping ASP.NET MVC 3, we started working thr (...)

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Common Design Patterns Resources

Last night I gave a presentation at the Cleveland .NET SIG on Common Design Patterns. The turnout was great, so much so that the group ran out of pizza and chairs, so thanks to everyone for taking the time to come out! Thankfully the A/C held up pretty well (in years’ past, it’s been an issue there) (...)

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