Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.

2009

26 articles published in 2009

  1. Embed images in stylesheets

    · 1 min read

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

  2. Off topic: The grand plan of 2009 conclusion

    · 3 min read

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

  3. Use Google's Closure Compiler in C#

    · 2 min read

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

  4. Use iframes with XHTML 1.0 Strict

    · 3 min read

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

  5. Verify JavaScript syntax using C#

    · 2 min read

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

  6. Meta-tag bypasses IE8 checks

    · 2 min read

    Internet Explorer 8 introduced a new mechanism for ensuring backwards compatibility with websites built for IE7, so "the web" didn't break with IE8's more standards compliant rendering. You could tell IE8 to render your...

  7. Scale in the browser

    · 3 min read

    How to use JavaScript and the browser as a tool to scale websites

  8. Iframe cross domain JavaScript calls

    · 2 min read

    How to implement 'Same Origin Policy' that will allow for cross domain JavaScript calls

  9. Off topic: The grand plan for 2009 follow up

    · 3 min read

    A follow-up to my grand plan for 2009 which looks to succeed

  10. Get last-modified header from response in ASP.NET

    · 1 min read

    A quick and dirty method for retrieving the last-modified date of a HTTP response in ASP.NET

  11. ASP.NET developer categories

    · 3 min read

    After interviewing many ASP.NET developers, an interesting pattern emerges...

  12. ASP.NET is a database framework

    · 3 min read

    My little beef about the definition of the ASP.NET framework

  13. BlogEngine.NET 1.5 final release

    · 2 min read

    The newest release of BlogEngine.NET is now available for download.

  14. Add support for iPhone in ASP.NET

    · 2 min read

    How to easily utilize a few cool capabilities of the iPhone and iPod in your own ASP.NET website.

  15. BlogEngine.NET 1.5 release candidate

    · 1 min read

    We have now released BlogEngine.NET 1.5 RC1

  16. YSlow: Add expires header to images in IIS 7

    · 2 min read

    How to easily improve the performance and YSlow score of your website by tweaking the web.config.

  17. .NETworking dinner

    · 1 min read

    Taking geek dinners to the next level this April

  18. Off topic: The grand plan of 2009

    · 2 min read

    My travel itinerary for 2009 and following the grand plan

  19. Caught on tape

    · 1 min read

    A video recording for my ASP.NET performance optimization tech talk at Microsoft

  20. WebForms or MVC? What about the third option?

    · 3 min read

    An alternate view on the discussion about the MVC framework and WebForms

  21. The WebOptimizer class

    · 1 min read

    A class for doing HTTP compression, removal of whitespace from HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and adding support for conditional GET requests

  22. Checklist for high quality websites part 2

    · 3 min read

    The second part of the checklist is about server side code and security

  23. ASP.NET application lockdown on IIS 7

    · 2 min read

    How to use the web.config to lock down your ASP.NET web applications

  24. Method for retrieving movie posters

    · 2 min read

    How to use the Yahoo API to retrieve movie posters in C# and ASP.NET

  25. Checklist for high quality websites part 1

    · 5 min read

    A checklist for websites

  26. The mail that got lost

    · 1 min read

    Mads Kristensen won the Microsoft MVP award in ASP.NET