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Fast ASP.NET Websites Book Giveaway

Fast ASP.NET Websites has just been released, and if you haven't already gotten your hands on a copy, I have 3 free copies to give away. Fast ASP.NET Websites is a practical, hands-on guide to create faster, more efficient ASP.NET sites and applications. This book

Get the number of users that are online using SignalR

In a recent experiment, I was looking for a way to retrieve the number of online users in an ASP.NET application. There are a number of techniques that can be applied, such as incrementing based on ASP.NET session state, or using Google Analytics to keep track of active

Fast ASP.NET Websites has been released!

A rather large and suspicious looking box arrived at my house yesterday. To my surprise, it was the first few copies of Fast ASP.NET websites. These have just rolled fresh off the press courtesy of Manning! If you aren't familiar with the contents of the book, it

ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Toolkit Update - August 2013

There have been a number of major updates released with the latest version of the MVC HTML5 Toolkit. You, the community have been great, and the majority of the patches and enhancements have been added via the Codeplex site. If you aren't familiar with the MVC HTML5 Toolkit,

ASP.NET Release Checklist

Whenever I work on side projects or make updates to this blog, I like to run a few simple checks to make sure that the site is ready before I release it. When working on side projects, you might not have the benefit of having someone else to help test,

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