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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:28 AM

RPO v1.0 Released

What is the RPO? The RPO (Runtime Page Optimizer) speeds up ASP.NET and SharePoint websites. Its simple. We automated 8 of the guidelines set out in Yahoo's "Best practices for speeding up your site" and checked these with the creators of YSlow to make sure the RPO gives you the fastest website ever. Try the RPO now from www.getrpo.com . Technical background The RPO (Runtime Page Optimizer) is a software component for IIS 6/7 web servers  that speeds up ASP.NET and SharePoint websites...
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Friday, August 15, 2008 7:29 PM

Intergen and ActionThis wins Microsoft award

ActionThis has won the software and services award at the Microsoft Awards last night and Intergen won the ultimate partner award. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:31 PM

Documenting Coding Standards - Less is More

My boss and I was recently asked to give feedback on a clients coding standards and Tokes has an excellent blog entry on ‘Less is More’ when it comes to coding standards. Tokes is the Development and Integration Manager at Intergen and his blog is always insightful, if you aren’t a subscriber yet, then you should be. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Monday, July 28, 2008 7:05 PM

Intergen in top 5% of Microsoft Dynamics Partners

Intergen in top 5% of Microsoft Dynamics Partners worldwide Intergen has been honoured with membership of the 2008 Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club which consists of the top 5% of Microsoft Dynamics partners worldwide. Intergen received this top recognition from Microsoft during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, Texas. The honour reflects Intergen’s dedication to meeting their clients’ needs. “Microsoft is proud to congratulate Intergen on being named to this year’s Microsoft...
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Monday, July 14, 2008 8:37 AM

More about Intergen

So I’ve blogged in the past about the jobs we currently have open here at Intergen , but I have not talked about any of the additional perks Intergen offers.  So here is a list of those additional perks for those interested in a move to a new and exciting job. $400 + GST towards the purchasing of a new mobile phone and a discounted phone plan of which Intergen will pay up to $110 per month towards Free monthly massages Drinks and nibbles every Friday afternoon Free Life Insurance cover of 3...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:30 PM

We want more: Junior/Intermediate Technical Solutions Consultant

So I regularly blog about how we need more people at Intergen , well this post is another one of those.  We are looking for a Junior/Intermediate Technical Solutions Consultant.  Here is the description of the Job, if this is you, send Keri an email and tell her where you saw the post.   Also have a look at the Careers section on the Intergen website, last time I looked there where 18 jobs advertised there. Junior - Intermediate Technical Solutions Consultant Short Description...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:44 PM

Notepad Rules!!!

Yeah it does!  I’ve been pair programming in Notepad for most of the week with Roshan (Dude needs to get a blog!).  And what have we been programming?  Well, remember the spaghetti stuff before ASP.NET?  What was it called again?  O, Yeah ASP, or classic ASP these days.  Not only that we had to do some funky ADO stuff, in notepad, with no intellisense.  So we had one laptop with Google open, and one of us searching for stuff we had forgotten existed 10 years ago...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:00 PM

An RPO Example

Ed from ActionThis have emailed me with a nice example of where RPO has been used on a site. Have a look at http://www.wssdemo.com/default.aspx The try it with the RPO off: http://www.wssdemo.com/default.aspx?rpo=off You should see a noticeable difference, especially if accessing it from long distance or over a slow connection.  So all of you not in New Zealand , where the site is hosted should see a difference in the load time of this site. Please leave a comment here, good or bad after looking...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:41 PM

A really important reason to consider RPO

If you advertise on Google then you will need to consider RPO since your landing page load time now affects your keywords’ quality score . Since the Runtime Page Optimizer can improve your page load times by up to 400%, it makes it pretty much a no brainer to install. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:20 PM

Runtime Page Optimizer Beta1 released

Wow the guys at ActionThis has been hard at work on the RPO and have released the first beta. RPO does its magic with no additional coding to your site, all you need to do it place the RPO assemblies in the Bin folder, add a few lines to your web.config and RPO helps speed up your website by collating all the same server calls into one.  Runtime Page Optimizer features: Combines all javascript and css on the fly Generates CSS sprites on the fly No code modifications required! Runs on ASP.NET...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:49 PM

HBO - Takeuchi Paper on Toyota

I just read this on Jeff Sutherland’s Blog and I couldn’t help but compare my current employer ( Intergen ) to Toyota.  Yea we are vastly different companies with Toyota being a far bigger company, but I found a few things that was really interesting for me to compare. We are trying to follow agile methodologies and in some teams, especially our product teams, it is working really well.  The teams that struggle is were we have to convince clients to use agile methodologies to get their...
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