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Web Development

A collection of 51 posts

The Google PageSpeed API & MVC 4

I often use tools such as Yahoo! YSlow and Google PageSpeed to profile the performance of my websites. These tools offer useful performance suggestions that will improve the speed and performance of my sites if implemented correctly. They both plug into the browser and can be run at the click

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How to disable Flash in all browsers

I am currently working in a team where we are replacing an older Flash implementation of a product with a shiny new HTML5 version. Quite often we find ourselves needing to disable Flash in many different browsers as we run through the testing process with the new product. I often

.NET Caching - File Dependencies

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the built in support that .NET has for in-memory caching. It sits under the System.Runtime.Caching namespace and can be easily added to any application to give you a great improvement in performance. You can store any type of object in

Dynamic Favicons using HTML5 Local Storage and TinyCon

I was perusing Github the other day and I came across this awesome little JavaScript library. It's called TinyCon and it's a small library for manipulating the favicon in your browser. It adds alert bubbles and changing images pretty similar to the way Gmail does. It's basically a really fun

Rendering PDFs with pdf.js using HTML5 and JavaScript

The web is full of PDFs floating around out there. How many times have you tried to open a PDF file on a machine and not had the correct software installed? It can be very frustrating. For most users out there they already have the correct software installed to view