Rob Janssen

Quick Ways to Boost Performance and Scalability of ASP.NET, WCF and Desktop Clients

There are some simple configuration changes that you can make on machine.config and IIS to give your web applications significant performance boost. These are simple harmless changes but make a lot of difference in terms of scalability. By tweaking system.

High Performance WCF Services : netTcpBinding

A bit of a divergence away from Azure today. I had two questions I wanted to answer before running comparison of performance in Azure. I received some requests for some down-loadable source.

A look at the new Visual Studio Online "Monaco" code editor

One of the most interesting announcements at the Visual Studio 2013 Launch today was the Monaco editor in Visual Studio Online. I've seen little hints of this coming - for example, Scott Hanselman's post in August: A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites.

Visual Studio 2013 Launch: Announcing Visual Studio Online

Today, I’m very excited to launch Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1. I am also thrilled to announce Visual Studio Online, a collection of developer services that runs on Windows Azure and extends the development experience in the cloud.

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The 3 Motivational Forces of Developers

Developers are a self-reflective lot. On any given day, /r/programming will boast a handful of new posts pontificating on "what makes a 'good' developer" or the "X types of programmers". So I know the topic space is over-tread...but I don't care.

The hidden performance costs of instantiating Throwables

Today it's time to make you aware of the performance penalty you may pay when using Throwable, Error, Exception and as a result give you a better idea how to avoid it.

Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps

This post has been cross-posted on VentureBeat. At Airbnb, we’ve learned a lot over the past few years while building rich web experiences.

Grade components, not browsers

Throughout the short history of the web, declarations of browser support have gone through a number of popular phases. Early approaches were often defined by exclusion, a la "best viewed in Netscape 4.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.