I’ve noticed that Firefox 3 is insanely slow loading web pages on localhost when using the ASP.NET Development Server (based on Cassini). Today something snapped in my head and I felt compelled to figure out what was wrong. Everything was fine in IE7 and when connecting to the production web server from FF3. A few [...]

There’s a new show on Channel 9 called 10-4 that looks at what’s new in .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 10. The first episode is a pretty introductory walkthrough showing you how to download and run the Virtual PC image with the CTP build. Host Brian Keller even takes you through the process of [...]

An awesome post over at www.aegisub.net comparing programming languages to world religions. A fun Friday afternoon read. C would be Judaism – it’s old and restrictive, but most of the world is familiar with its laws and respects them. The catch is, you can’t convert into it – you’re either into it from the start, or [...]

Steve Souders from Google (web performance and open source initiatives) has a nice post summarizing his end of term lecture at Stanford entitled "State of Performance". Nice to see the highly awesome Strangeloop Networks get some link love in the post. Steve also mentions the O’Reilly Velocity conference that I was tempted to attend last year. I [...]

Jumping from ASP.NET to Silverlight 2 Not sure how long this will last… The publisher published the whole mini-book as the "excerpt chapter." Oops. They’ll probably correct that fairly soon so grab a "preview copy" while you can. If you find the book useful, you really should give Wrox its $7. At least send the author some [...]