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IIS WarmUp Part II

Published on April 18, 2012 by in Design Tips, Development Tips, Site Rendering Engine, VB.Net, Web Design, Web Development

I explained in my earlier post the importance of “warming up” your sites in IIS, especially using the latest .Net frameworks.

Here is a major update to the code posted in that post.

This one will allow you to “warm up” every site in IIS on your server. All you have to do is set the version of IIS to 7 or 6 depending on your install, and then run the program. You could also set the allApplications flag to false and put in the selected sites to “warm up”. Please understand, because of the access needed to warm up all of your sites, this program needs to run under an Administrator account. (it accesses IIS’s metabase files)

So, without too much blab Read more…

 
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IIS Site Warmup

Published on April 13, 2012 by in Design Tips, Development Tips, IIS, VB.Net, Web Design, Web Development

Hey folks, ’bout time for me to come around with a little tip.

Thanks to IIS 7.5 Extensions and Microsoft (well… really Windows 8, and IIS 8 I guess…), we can now prime our Application Pools, when IIS starts.

Now, though it would be nice to be able to simply plug it in and go, unfortunately this is not the case, and there is some configuring to do.

Please see Read more…

 
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URL Rewriting without 3rd Party Add-Ons

Published on March 1, 2012 by in ASP.Net, Development Tips, SEO, VB.Net, Web Design, Web Development

.Net 3.5 Brought to developers of MVC applications the wonderful world of Page Routing. This allows us .Net developers to not have to worry about SEO friendly URLs (pretty much) any more, as we can simplify the URL rewritting process and get rid of those pesky 3rd party add-ons.

.Net 4 brings this Page Routing to web forms. Which allows the same thing, however, now we do not have to be developing an MVC application in order for it to be utilized. Read more…

 
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Proof Positive That My Site’s Faster Than Yours

Published on November 5, 2011 by in Latest News, Quick Break from Reality

We finally have the proof that the o7th Web Design Site Rendering Engine is faster than a static website.

We finished up our Export module this morning, so we could export the entire site into static HTML files.  We setup the exported site on the same server running the SRE, enabled some GZip compression, and what did we find???

Here’s the link to the results pages:

  • SRE Rendered: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/111105_8T_238KG/
  • Static Files: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/111105_FX_238KA/
 
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YUI Compressor Windows GUI

Published on October 4, 2011 by in Design Tips, Development Tips, Web Design, Web Development

Well, I finally broke down and decided I was sick and tired of having to type in a command prompt what I needed done with the YUI Compressor for my CSS and javascripts.

This is sort-of a beta version, but I would like to know if anyone comes across any bugs in it… maybe someday (after it’s perfected), I’ll post up the source code for it, but for now… SUFFER! :)

Nah, Enjoy, it’s already saved me tons of hours!

p.s. it requires the .Net 4 framework to be installed.

Here it is:
YUI Compressor Gui v.1.1.0.14

 
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