There is a lot of whitespace in both stylesheets and JavaScript files. This is because of indented text and line breaks to name a few. They are typically also filled with comments to make them more maintainable. Believe...

There are a lot of articles explaining the basics in performance optimization in ASP.NET. Here is one and here is another . It is important to know the basics and use them where appropriate. The basics include caching...

A couple of colleagues and I talked about how unpleasant surprises could be avoided if you use the time needed to research the task before actually starting to work on it. It turned out, we all did it in our own distinct...

Over time, a database becomes fragmented when it is used. This makes it grow in size and perform badly. Not the two qualities you want for your mission-critical data. Luckily, a lot of databases such as MS SQL Server and...

I recently build a web application that would let visitors add calendar items to their calendar program like Outlook or windows mobile smartphone, just by clicking a link and download the vCalendar item. vCalendar is a...

In a normal webpage there is a lot of whitespace. We put it there in form of tabs and carriage-returns in order to make the document more maintainable and easier to read. But it has its price in terms of adding to the...

What happened to that fantastic little tool that would find your memory screw-ups in a nice and friendly manor? I have been looking for a profiler for .NET 2.0 for the past year or so, when Visual Studio 2005 was still...

Say what???! <quote> AJAX is the most promising and coolest thing happening in the web world at the moment – a part of the web 2.0 movement! </quote> If you read any web 2.0 blogs it seems that IT IS the web 2.0...

For those of you who tried the beta 1 release, you would agree that a lot has happened since then. The design has improved, the RSS aggregator feature has improved along with a lot of things. The tabbed browsing also...