Signal-to-Noise #2

The Republic Day [http://server1.msn.co.in/sp04/Republicday/] (Mon, 26th Jan) is near while the odd rains in and around New Delhi will hopefully not confine people indoors?during this long weekend. To me, the most amazing sight in the city this time of the year is the…

Signal-to-Noise #1

To organize my blog better I’m starting this new category of posts called Signal-to-Noise [http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213018,00.html]. Such posts will basically be aggregated random links, ideas, thoughts and resources from the .NET community and the technology sector. Here’s today’s scoop…

ASP.NET Road Show notes

Jake Ashcraft [http://weblogs.asp.net/jakeashcraft/] shares notes [http://weblogs.asp.net/jakeashcraft/archive/2004/01/20/60499.aspx] taken by Greg at the ASP.NET Road Show [http://www.asp.net/roadshow] event. A good read if you’ve missed the Road Show.…

ASP.NET Code Migration

Need help migrating your application from PHP/ASP/JSP to ASP.NET? Checkout the ASP.NET Code Migration Assistants [http://www.asp.net/MigrationAssistants/]…

Rory Rocks .NET

Rory Blyth [http://www.neopoleon.com/] is interviewed this week at .NET Rocks! [http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/] Rory?talks about the .NET community and the Open Source Software (OSS) community, writing, blogging, driving to the PDC from Las Vegas, Longhorn, and lots of other great stuff.…

"use the filesystem as your database"

Stuart Langridge [http://www.kryogenix.org/], writes about why he doesn’t like databases [http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/01/17/databases] and why to “use the filesystem as your database” (in context to the backend of a blog, I guess). IMO, it may hold some value to design…

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Beta 2 of Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability [http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces/workspace.aspx?ID=540F8BD7-BE95-45F7-A477-919D23294553] from the Patterns and Practices book. As?Sam Gentile?blogged about beta 1 [http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2003/12/08/10858.aspx] of this book, it contains a wealth of…

J2EE verses .NET

The Middleware Company [http://www.middleware-company.com/], a training/consulting company, conducted an experiment comparing J2EE and .NET performance. This whitepaper details those results. Free download – J2EE verses .NET performance comparison [http://www.middleware-company.com/j2eedotnetbench/report.shtml].…