During the last months at work [http://jobs.ebaycareers.com/dk/aarhus-jobs], we’ve embraced a new technology called Graphite [http://graphite.wikidot.com/]. In simple terms Graphite is a daemon able to collect data and present them in various graphs. Want to show a chart showing number of daily…
It’s been 7 months since the last post [https://thomasardal.com/yslow-rules-12-avoid-redirects/] in my YSlow series. So why did I stop blogging about performance optimization? Well, actually there are two answers to that question. First is because of my passion for unit-testing, which I started blogging about at pretty…
I sometimes find myself doing extension methods for the HtmlHelper class in ASP.NET MVC. I like HtmlHelper, but I don’t really dig when the methods generate HTML. This is what partial views are for, right? I usually add small utility methods related to a single view on the…
A former college of mine told me, that he had founded “The association opposed the abandonment of PerformanceDude.com”. In order to make him happy, I thought that I would leave the wonderful world of unit testing for a moment, in the benefit of writing a performance related post 🙂 We’…
This week I have chosen to combine rule numbers 6 and 7. Why? Because they focus on pretty much the same thing: where to put style sheet and script references. According to rule number 6, you should put all your styling in the head section of your HTML document. The…
We all know it: zipping is a great way to compress the size of a file. This rule also applies on the web. Zipping responses from a server is natively implemented in the HTTP version 1.1 standard, which is why you don’t have any excuse left not to…
We have reached rule number 4 in our journey into the exciting world of the YSlow rule set. Rule number 4 is all about caching. We have tackled the caching area a bit in some of the previous posts, but in this post I will dig more into this important…
Hi and welcome to my new blog. During my years as a professional software developer, I’ve learned a thing or two about performance-optimizing software applications (both desktop and web applications). I’ve studied a lot of blog posts in order to solve different performance-related problems. This blog is my…