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...
Microsoft has launched a Beginner's Developer Learning centre aimed at the beginner programmers with information on how to start your first Web or Windows application in .Net using any of the Express Editions. Not to sure if this is a good or bad thing for hard core developers out there and an industry already overrun by junior developers, however it's a brilliant idea from Microsoft. More about this site here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark...