Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.

2010

8 articles published in 2010

  1. Demo of Image Optimizer

    · 1 min read

    The Image Optimizer extension for Visual Studio is now ready for prime time. Therefore I've done a brief video demo of how it actually works.

  2. Image Optimizer (beta) - VS2010 extension

    · 2 min read

    Most web developers know the importance of optimizing images for faster page loading times, but it’s also a very cumbersome, time consuming and boring process. Then when you are done, the customer or designer gives you...

  3. Performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 – part 2

    · 6 min read

    In part 1 of this series , we looked at some tricks to optimize the performance of any website running in IIS 7 by only modifying the web.config. In this part we will focus on handling browser caching issues and optimize...

  4. Performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 – part 1

    · 3 min read

    In this first installment of performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 we will look at some of the easy, yet powerful possibilities in the web.config file. By taking advantage of these few tricks we can increase the performance of any new or existing website without changing anything but the web.config file.

  5. Client-side performance - IIS 6 vs. IIS 7

    · 2 min read

    I recently had to come up with a good argument for upgrading a Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. It is used as a web server, so the benefit I was looking for was the upgrade of IIS 6 to IIS 7.5. So I thought, why...

  6. Google’s Page Speed and invalid HTML

    · 1 min read

    I’ve used Google’s Page Speed plug-in for Firebug a lot since it was released last year. Even though it’s not as good as Yahoo’s YSlow plug-in, it’s still very usable for some scenarios YSlow doesn’t support – my...

  7. Windows Phone 7 user agent

    · 1 min read

    At the Mix10 conference, the Windows Phone 7 teams had some very big announcements – a lot of it had been kept secret and first revealed to the public now. There is however still some details they keep secret. Some of...

  8. Efficient stylesheet minification in C#

    · 1 min read

    A few weeks back i found out that the method I use to minify CSS was about 5% more efficient than the YUI Compressor . I tweeted about it and was encouraged to post the code that does the actual minification. public...