In this first installment of performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 we will look at some of the easy, yet powerful possibilities in the web.config file. By taking advantage of these few tricks we can increase the performance of any new or existing website without changing anything but the web.config file. [More]

I recently had to come up with a good argument for upgrading a Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. It is used as a web server, so the benefit I was looking for was the upgrade of IIS 6 to IIS 7.5. So I thought, why not make two deploys of the exact same website to both server editions and compa... [More]

I’ve used Google’s Page Speed plug-in for Firebug a lot since it was released last year. Even though it’s not as good as Yahoo’s YSlow plug-in, it’s still very usable for some scenarios YSlow doesn’t support – my favorite being the analysis of unused CSS and... [More]

At the Mix10 conference, the Windows Phone 7 teams had some very big announcements – a lot of it had been kept secret and first revealed to the public now. There is however still some details they keep secret. Some of these secrets are the user agents of Internet Explorer for Windows Phone 7, ... [More]

A few weeks back i found out that the method I use to minify CSS was about 5% more efficient than the YUI Compressor. I tweeted about it and was encouraged to post the code that does the actual minification. public static string RemoveWhiteSpaceFromStylesheets(string body) {   body = Regex... [More]

A video showing you how easy it is to embed images directly into stylesheets to reduce the number of HTTP requests [More]

The conclusion of my grand plan of 2009 saying I have to visit 12 different countries by the end of the year. [More]

A very simple and small class for utilizing the Google Closure Compiler API for minifying JavaScript. [More]

Use a custom DTD that adds iframe support to XHTML 1.0 Strict [More]

How to use the Microsoft JScript compiler that's build into the .NET Framework [More]