Software / Technology Tips

Performance Parameters/Rules of YSlow: The Yahoo’s Performance team listed out 34 parameters/rules which greatly affect the performance of the webpage,out of which YSlow analyzes the components based on the following 22 testable parameters which are listed in the order of importance and effectiveness. 1.Minimize HTTP Requests 2.Use a Content Delivery Network 3.Add an Expires or…

Once you have installed the extension, you can access it from Tools menu or using the shortcut F12 or by clicking on the bug icon in the status bar of Firefox (Ctrl + F12 to open in a new window). Since it consumes considerable amount of resources and slows down the browser, you can disable…

WHAT is Retry Logic ? When we use Azure storage, then it is advised to have a transient fault handling implemented with all the Azure related operations. We can create a Retry logic which will take care of that. Lets say we are downloading a really big file or updating huge records to DB. In…

Earlier, if we wanted to apply a outline/stroke effect to text in a web page, we would have to rely on images. But with the latest CSS  we can get the effect without using images. By using CSS text shadow property we can achieve this. Please note,this method is most relevant for the time being…

Internet connection speed has always been a major issue for geeks. Service providers have been constantly uppgrading their service but are the software we use to connect to the Internet evolving at the same pace ? May be not.!  For instance while most of us users have now switched to broadband, popular browsers like IE7 are still configured…

It is really interesting to access webservices of yahoo using SQL like comands called YQL, Yahoo Query Language. YQL webservice has pre-defined tables for Flickr, MyBlogLog and some other webservices. Moreover, an user-defined Open Data Table can be created to access data sources of webservices other than Yahoo!. The output can be recieved in either…

Featured Product: When the store owner tries to increase the sale of a product, he needs to make the product as a featured product. So that the owner could able to do more publicity of those products. Here I am describing how can you create a featured product and show the block in the home…

The following code snippet would allow one to write text to a file in VB 6.0. This can help if some one wants to log any kind of information to a log file. The function basically accepts 3 parameters 1. The text/content of the line that needs to be written. 2. The path name where…

If we want to serialize and deSerialize an object in silverlight We have to use DataContractSerializer as Silverlight doesn’t support BinaryFormatter. DataContractSerializer under the type System.Runtime.Serialization Serializes and deserializes an instance of a type into an XML stream  using dataContract. Create a Silverlight-enabled wcf service and define the data contract and Datamember attributes withing the…

Lynx was one of the earliest Web browsers, in fact, for a period of time it was the only popular hypertext browser available. Initially it was mean’t for UNIX, VMS only but gradually it was ported to Linux, DOS and finally Windows. It is a text-only browser, so when newer browsers supporting images arrived, Lynx…