23 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Start ORM with LINQ in .Net Framework

Start ORM with LINQ in .Net Framework

In this post, I’m gonna show you how you can kick start your development with LINQ, new extension to .NET Framework that encompasses language-integrated query, set, and transform operations.
If you are unfamiliar with the terms ORM and LINQ then refer to the following articles to help you understand the idea and the purpose behind them.

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19 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Simple Steps to Start WCF with Visual Studio 2008

Simple Steps to Start WCF with Visual Studio 2008

WCF, as you may have known, stands for Windows Communication Foundation. It is an interface provided in .NET framework for building connected and service-oriented application to support Service Oriented Architecture, in short SOA. However I won’t dig into detail about WCF and the relevant topics such as SOA. If you are interested to find out [...]

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22 June 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Image Manipulation in PHP

Sometimes there is a need to do simple image manipulation for certain web projects. Take for example a popular site called Flickr. Flickr is an image hosting site that allows online community to store pictures for others to view. And for some cases some uploaders may have big image files and hence a site like [...]

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15 June 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Web Performance Best Practices

Following-up my previous post on how to increase site performance. I received an email from my lead about a Firefox add-on named “Page Speed” that helps analyze a site performance.
In brief, Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and [...]

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28 May 2009 ~ 5 Comments

One-Cent Tips to Increase Site Performance

Experience a spike in usage on your hosting server? Well, my old friend does as he highlighted in his recent post about his decision in switching his theme to a simple one: one that he presumed doesn’t chew up a lot of resources from his shared hosting server ;). So here’s just my little thought or sharing tips on how to increase your web site or blog site performance for better user experience.

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