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Web Application Performance: CSS Data URIs

Was doing my daily research today and learned a couple of new and interesting things. A while back, I wrote a post about rendering options using .NET 3.5 SP1's charting component. I outlined a few of the more conventional/out-of-the-box methods (temporary directory, binary streaming). I also outlined a lesser-known technique in which you stream binary data to the src attribute of your <img> tag. That ends up looking like this... <img src='data:image/png;base64, iVBORw0KGgoAAAA[snip]; />...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:04 PM | Feedback (2)

Surprising jQuery Performance Tip

Was doing some research this morning, as usual, and came across a post from Giulio Bai on jQuery performance tips. A lot of his tips are things I’ve heard elsewhere (no offense!), but one that I haven’t seen anywhere and for some reason surprised me is that using a the JavaScript provided for() loop is considerably faster than using jQuery’s each() function. In fact, it can be several orders of magnitude faster depending on what you’re doing. Interesting. Link to his post Technorati Tags: jQuery,performance...
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Posted On Friday, August 21, 2009 12:28 PM | Feedback (0)

XmlSerializer & XmlSerializerFactory: I’m sort of positive you aren’t insane.

A few weeks back I was doing some pokin’ around the ol’ web regarding reading XML from somewhere (database, file-system, the trunk of your car) and into an .NET object. In case you weren’t aware…it turns out .NET makes doing this type of work nothing short of trivial. <slightly off-topic background info> That is, if you had XML that you [stole from MSDN] that looked like this… <?xml version="1.0"?> <book> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's...
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Posted On Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:51 PM | Feedback (0)

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