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Memcached

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:14:47 +0800

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.

Exception Handling best practices in N-Tier Asp.net applications

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:51:49 +0800

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.

Performance is a Feature - Jeff Atwood

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:23:53 +0800

Performance is a Feature - Jeff Atwood:

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

Mini Profiler

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:01:00 +0800

Mini Profiler:

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

CLRProfiler V4 Released

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:04:00 +0800

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.

VisualHG

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:08:47 +0800

VisualHG:

Mercurial Source Control Plugin for MS Visual Studio

BitBucket (DVCS Code Hosting)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:57:00 +0800

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.

Mercurial

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:10:36 +0800

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.

Glimpse

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:48:00 +0800

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.

ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:38:00 +0800

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.

Open Source Dependency Injector for .NET

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:29:00 +0800

Open Source Dependency Injector for .NET:

Ninject is a lightweight dependency injection framework for .NET applications. It helps you split your application into a collection of loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive pieces, and then glue them back together in a flexible manner. By using Ninject to support your software’s architecture, your code will become easier to write, reuse, test, and modify.

Introduction to OAuth 1.0

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:27:00 +0800

Introduction to OAuth 1.0:

OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g., photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically username and password.

OAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of credentials to their data hosted by a given service provider. Each token grants access to a specific site (e.g., a video editing site) for specific resources (e.g., just videos from a specific album) and for a defined duration (e.g., the next 2 hours). This allows a user to grant a third party site access to their information stored with another service provider, without sharing their access permissions or the full extent of their data