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Archive for October, 2006

Upgrading To Fedora Core 6

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Well, as soon as I realised that was the day Fedora Core 6 was released I got my hands on the work. The most anoying thing about all the process was that Fedora website was, and still is, down. Not only the website is down as at least at that day the file servers were […]


Consequences of AJAX on ASP.Net Webcontrols Development

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Every day new sites with AJAX appear and it looks like AJAX had come to stay. ASP.Net, as every other reputable web framework, must take it into account. It must provide the right tools to every scenario. What are the scenarios then? HTML Until AJAX gained momentum, this was the only possible scenario. If you […]


Detecting .Net Executables And Choosing Between Mono And Wine

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Beeing able to double click, or simply ./app.exe from the console, is always easier that calling Mono or Wine. The Linux Kernel provides a feature that enables developers to hook and make .exe to be recognized and started as an excutable but the current solutions are not compatible between themselves. I tough that doing an […]


Firefox Cache

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Today I found the confirmation for something I have been guessing for a long time. Firefox high memory usage is not only due to memory leaks, but I could only guess that when Firefox had been using 400-600MB of RAM it must have been caching all my browsing session in memory. In this article, element14 […]


How To Test And Debug AJAX Performance With IIS

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

I’ve been developing an application on my intranet and everything works quick. But when I do release my application to external (internet) server I’ve found that the performance was far from acceptable. The reason is not in the server nor the client, its the network itself if you’re transmitting too much data. Under IIS on […]