Category: Web Development
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Speed Up IIS Application Boot Times
By default IIS 7.5 will recycle your web application’s worker process after 20 minutes of inactivity. In a nutshell, this means that when you have a site that is used lightly, it will take a while to start up. This is because it has to load all the dependent assemblies and store them in memory.…
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Merging Changes from Branches in SVN
This is a tip for TortoiseSVN Source Control and covers branching and merging. If you don’t know what that is, read this nice help document. We often need to try out an idea without mucking up the main line of development. To do this we copy the code out into a “branched” version. I use these…
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Free Training For Leap Day
Monty at work told me about this. It’s pretty cool. Free videos for leap day! So, after work, or over lunch, sit back with a coffee (or a beer if this is later) and watch some hardcore developer training. Yippee! Pluralsight: Hardcore Developer Training http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/
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New Version of SQL Server To Launch in March 2012
They really feel like they just keep on coming. It feels like only yesterday that we finally upgraded to SQL Server 2008 R2 here. In fact, I think it was 6 months ago, in 2011. Not like I need to tell you, but it’s hard to keep up. But here it is. SQL Server 2012.…
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Find Things Using Port 80
You can use this cool DOS command to find anything using port 80 on your Windows machine. Actually, you could find connections to any port by just switching the “:80” portion of the command. netstat -aon|findstr :80