October 2008 - Posts

ASP.NET Performance: Fast AJAX, Faster AJAX

      AJAX improves significantly both user experience and performance. It can be further improved by using down level capabilities that .Net framework offers. Specifically, consuming Web Services and WCF directly from client script. Read More...

Posted 29 October 08 12:43 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, AJAX

Consultant Eaten By Sharks

"If you swim with sharks, do not act like food" - I can crystal clearly remember that quote by Michio Kaku when he was giving a keynote during internal MS convention. It resonated with me a lot. As a consultant, I often find myself deep in the waters Read More...

Posted 27 October 08 11:16 by alikl | 2 Comments   
Filed under Consulting

Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Consultants

      I was reading The Practice of Leadership blog that briefly reviewed Steven Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . I like Steven Covey's approach. In fact, I massively use Steven's Urgent/Important quadrants to Read More...

Posted 22 October 08 10:59 by alikl | 1 Comments   
Filed under Consulting

Complex Enterprises And Simple Architectures

      I started to read a book by Roger Sessions - Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises . I was intrigued by the title. The number of pages made me completely curious - ~170 pages. First too pages of read made me fall in love Read More...

Posted 20 October 08 12:24 by alikl | 1 Comments   

ASP.NET Performance: Dynamically Loaded Assemblies Cause Application Recycles (Problem and Solution)

      In my speak - dynamically loaded assemblies are those assemblies that were compiled during run time dynamically via CodeProvider like CSharpCodeProvider directly or by using types that use this class internally. Assemblies that Read More...

Posted 08 October 08 04:21 by alikl | 4 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Implementation, Performance

Improve ASP.NET 2.0 Performance With PageAsyncTask - Multithreading For The Masses

      Multithreading is tough. This is what John Robbins says about it in his excellent book Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications : "Don't do it... Make sure there's no other way you can structure your program before you Read More...

Posted 02 October 08 11:31 by alikl | 0 Comments   
Filed under Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, Threading

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