Mark Newton
Last column I wrote about the problems of building scalable web based solutions. The need for software solutions that will handle large amounts of data and transactions become more vital as web applications become more complex and popular. The most popular web server out on the internet is without doubt Apache, which whilst it is […]
My last article about simple ways to build web sites ( see PcPro Issue 192 ) certainly created a lot of positive emails. There seems to be a desire out there for easy to use web design tools, but there is such a large number of these that making a choice is tricky. Microsoft has […]
Once you have built and tested your web application, the next question you should ask yourself is ‘what is the performance under stress of this application’ this question should be asked before asking ‘who do I invoice?’ There are several tools out there to help several of which I have written about in the past. […]
Once you have your code working fine, here is a little tip to help improve the speed of your web site. Just switch on HTTP Compression. With this turned on at the web server then any browser that is capable of receiving compressed HTTP, which now is most of them, will get a compressed data […]
One AJAX library that I haven’t mentioned yet and nor does the book, and that is ‘Spry’. This is the Adobe AJAX library which I have written about in this column before. Adobe’s documentation is good and it is not too difficult to use this library, however it is a case of adding code manually, […]
One item that did catch my attention was a presentation about the newly released Reactive Extensions of JavaScript. As is often the case when something like this comes along to an event like MIX it is almost hidden beneath all the posturing about who can build the fastest browser. Reactive Extensions (RxJS ) could be […]
Just before the Christmas season began in earnest I decided to try and move one of our Actinic shops to one of our new web servers, which, with hindsight, was probably not the best time to do such a thing. This web server was running windows 2003 web edition and IIS 6 so nothing particularly […]
When thinking about using new technology whether it be a new mobile phone or designing a new web site it is all too easy to get carried away with all the features that the product has or the web site could have. At this point stop! Don’t think what the technology will do, but rather […]
The ability to move back in your code is a first for web development I guess the big news for anyone developing with Microsoft technologies is the release candidate of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4. Whilst I have mentioned these before, this was when the products were only beta. Now that release candidate as […]
Mapping has always held special fascination for me and from an early age I studied the large yellowing maps on the wall on the primary classroom. These graphical representations of the world showed a previous era, with a lot of the countries coloured in a pinkish red to indicate that they were part of the […]