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SA Developer has recently run a few events in JHB and the Western Cape around LINQ. Unfortunately the KZN audience is not ready for a talk on LINQ, however personally I am extremely interested in it. I found a set of brilliant articles on DotNetSlackers explaining LINQ in detail. It's currently in 3 parts and the first starts here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Andre from The Mailowl Scrolls pointed me to this excellent article on reducing your website bandwidth by Jeff Atwood. It in short mentions the following methods to reduce web traffic costs: Switch to an external image provider Enable HTTP Compression Outsource your RSS feeds Optimize the size of your JavaScript and CSS Definitely a few tips I am going to take into consideration when redesigning current platforms. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it...
One of the features of dasBlog I was very intrigued with was it's ability to use gzip compression to serve pages. After doing a bit of research I realized that IIS by default does not enable compression and the setup is not entirely straight forward. I came across the following brilliant article on how to enable compression on IIS and tested it on two of my servers, an absolutely amazing difference in performance overall. Have a look here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit...
Since starting with Pocket PC development my biggest frustration has always been getting ActiveSync to see the Emulator, as we rely heavily on an RAPI interface we developed due to the requirements of the AMS project. By fluke I came across an article today about using virtual communication drivers to achieve this and then found a way to do this easily. Open ActiveSync and set the connection type to DMA Start the required emulator. (In VS 2005 à Tools à Connect to Device) Open the Device Emulator...