Memcached

Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many problems facing large data caches. Its API is available for most popular languages.

  1. Date Posted Icon 16th July 2012
Exception Handling best practices in N-Tier Asp.net applications

“How do you manage Exceptions in your Asp.net applications?”

Pretty simple question, but not that much simple to answer.

We are good at making things. But, may be, we are not equally good at designing systems which properly handles errors with gracefulness, provides user with a polite message about the error and doesn’t leave him/her in a dead-end, and internally, notifies the system developers with enough details so that the poor developers don’t feel like they need to learn some rocket science to fix those errors.

  1. Date Posted Icon 1st February 2012
Performance is a Feature - Jeff Atwood

Information on how Stack Overflow team manages their web site performance.

  1. Date Posted Icon 19th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 8
    3. Tags Icon #profiler#web site performance
Mini Profiler

A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET.

  1. Date Posted Icon 19th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 18
    3. Tags Icon #asp .net#profiler#debug
CLRProfiler V4 Released

CLRProfiler V4 is now publicly available.  You may download from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=be2d842b-fdce-4600-8d32-a3cf74fda5e1

This is of interest both to folks who want a free profiler to diagnose memory issues with their managed apps, and for folks who author profilers of their own, and would like to look at source code of a real-world example of a profiler.

  1. Date Posted Icon 19th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 8
    3. Tags Icon #debug#profiler
VisualHG

Mercurial Source Control Plugin for MS Visual Studio

  1. Date Posted Icon 17th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 4
    3. Tags Icon #Mercurial#SCM#Visual Studio Plugin
BitBucket (DVCS Code Hosting)

Store all of your Git and Mercurial source code in one place with unlimited private repositories. Includes issue tracking, wiki, and pull requests.

Secure hosting with flexible permissions for your repositories. Integrates with JIRA, Jenkins, Pivotal, Cloud9 IDE and other developer tools.

  1. Date Posted Icon 17th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 1
    3. Tags Icon #DVCS#source code hosting
Mercurial

Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. Mercurial’s major design goals include high performance and scalability, decentralized, fully distributed collaborative development, robust handling of both plain text and binary files, and advanced branching and merging capabilities, while remaining conceptually simple.

  1. Date Posted Icon 17th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 2
    3. Tags Icon #SCM#Source Control
Glimpse

At its core Glimpse allows you to debug your Web Service right in the browser. Glimpse allows you to “Glimpse” into what’s going on in your web server. In other words what Firebug is to debugging your client side code, Glimpse is to debugging your server within the client.

  1. Date Posted Icon 17th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 3
    3. Tags Icon #debug#debugger
ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers)

ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment.

  1. Date Posted Icon 17th January 2012
    2. Tags Icon #error handler#error logging