Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) – What must web developer know?
It is a general perspective that CSS is a designer stuff. IMHO this is not completely correct as having fundamental understanding of CSS and how it works is very important for every web developer. It not only helps you to improve your presentation skill but also improve your understanding of DOM and how to parse [...]
Continue reading...Optimizing ASP.NET web application - Part 3a (ASP.NET Level Optimization Techniques)
Thursday, May 5, 2011
This is third blog in a series of blogs which would be focusing on optimizing the performance of an ASP.NET web application. Below are links to previous blogs: 1. Optimizing ASP.NET web application - Part 1 (Let the journey begin) 2. Optimizing ASP.NET web application - Part 2 (Measuring Performance) In this blog we will be focusing on [...]
Continue reading...Optimizing ASP.NET web application - Part 2 (Measuring Performance)
Sunday, March 27, 2011
This is the second blog in a series of blogs which would be focusing on optimizing the performance of an ASP.NET web application. In the first part I tried to explain where we should start while investigating the poor performance and why measuring the performance is the key to the entire exercise of performance optimization. Let [...]
Continue reading...Optimizing ASP.NET web application - Part 1 (Let the journey begin)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
“Website is too slow” how many of you have heard this complaint either from your manager or client or worst case from the end user. Fortunately I have heard this few times General trend I have seen is that the dev team is pushed into a “stress + stretch” mode and project crash landing into the [...]
Continue reading...Hosting a ASP.NET Web Application in a Web Farm
Monday, June 28, 2010
Once the traffic on any website goes beyond what could be handled by single stand alone server the natural progression is to port the website into a web farm or web garden. There is a good article that explain the difference between web farm and web garden here (http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article713-difference-between-web-farm-and-web-garden-.aspx ). Few of the key points that [...]
Continue reading...Agile The Revolution: Now What?
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Agile the revolution: Now what? Before we start our journey I would request the reader to be patient enough to reach the end of the blog and not to draw a conclusion in the middle of it. So what did I mean when I said “Agile the revolution”? Let us go back to the days when [...]
Continue reading...Should We Compare? SOAP VS REST
Thursday, June 3, 2010
First of all let us not compare apples to oranges. SOAP is a protocol where as REST is an approach. So we can completely model my system for REST approach and then implement it using SOAP/WSDL, CORBA or any other technology. So what do we compare SOAP to? I would say right comparison will be SOAP vs POX [...]
Continue reading...Train-to-Retain - Simple Success Formula
Sunday, August 23, 2009
“When the going gets tough, tough gets going”. But the fact is tougher time ask for smarter and prudent strategies. Is shedding extra fat all what a can bulky corporate can rely on this time of recession? Is it due time to think beyond it? As most economist believe that the grilling is over and sooner or [...]
Continue reading...Product lifecycle Management (PLM) VS Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Monday, August 10, 2009
I could find plenty of good articles that explained both ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). But the tough part was linking between them or understanding similarities and differences between the two. So I thought it would be right to make an honest attempt trying to demystify the relationship between PLM and [...]
Continue reading...Introduction to ALM
Monday, August 10, 2009
What is ALM? Let me start by saying ALM is not SDLC. ALM starts even before the SDLC kicks off and ends much after SDLC is complete. ALM can be best understood as marriage of business management and software engineering. In a whitepaper published by DAVID CHAPPELL on “WHAT IS APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT?” ALM is divided [...]
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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