I helped out one of colleagues recently whose customer's application hit high CPU in one test environment but not another. The reason for that was that contrary to what they thought, the test data used in one environment was not the same as in the other...

Over on the "ACE Team" blog there's a useful blog post with some performance tips for ASP.NET sites . The point about batch compilation and Debug="true" was certainly correct for version 1.1 but I think in ASP.NET 2.0 they are decoupled...

My work laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 which I've set up to dual boot between Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 x64. I got it fairly recently so I am still "tweaking" it, trying to get everything working smoothly. The wireless adapter is an...