Client side web site performance
On this page: Techniques in the old days Techniques now; some of the same Further reading Some useful tools Web developers often spend considerable (and needed) effort to ensure their architecture...
View ArticleWeb site performance: Expires Header
On this page: Setting Expires Header in Apache Setting Expires Header in ASP.NET Why use URL rewriting in the above examples? But won’t development be problematic? Yahoo offers to host their YUI...
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Google to host a number of JavaScript libraries
Google just announced their AJAX Library API, where Google will host many major JavaScript frameworks for you, such as jQuery, Prototype, Mootools, Dojo, etc. This will allow you to write web pages...
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Google App Engine as your own Content Delivery Network
24 Ways has an excellent article on using Google App Engine as your own Content Delivery Network, showing you how easy it is to set one up. A CDN is a network of servers around the world to serve...
View ArticleXSLT Performance tip: don’t indent output
On this page: Summary: turn off xsl output indenting How is XSLT output indent turned off? What kind of savings do you get? Why can this make such a difference? But doesn’t this make the output harder...
View ArticleTweaking our Nancy unit tests to run in 5 minutes instead of 40
On this page: TL;DR version: We value fast, automated tests Nancy framework has a handy Browser testing component Server side UI test execution time was slowing down dramatically Solution: use...
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