YSlow performance challenge: improved from 36 to 64

Mads Kristensen, after reading my report about the score given by YSlow to his and other blogs, improved his score and challenged me to do the same.After 20 days, recovering from the time zone shift,…

How to use YUI JS Compressor inside a NAnt build script

As I anticipated yesterday, I implemented the YUI JS compressor inside Subtext's build process, and since it took me a while to understand how to specify the arguments for the NAnt <exec> task I…

YUI JavaScript compressor

Following the release of YSlow, there has a lot buzz around the rules it evaluates. And even if not all the 13 rules are issues for normal websites, some of them, like gzipping all the static text…

Yet another "big" blogger on SubText

Last week the UGIdotNET community blog portal migrated to Subtext, and yesterday, another Italian .NET blogger, Michele Locuratolo, C# MVP and co-founder of a regional .NET UG (dotnetside), moved from…

Dissecting YSlow

In the last weeks there has been a lot of talking around YSlow, the tool that the Yahoo! Developer Network released to check sites against their 13 rules of High Performance Web Sites.Last week I used…

UGIdotNET is now on Subtext

goes to   After GeeksWithBlogs, also UGIdotNET, the Italian .NET user group, migrated from .Text to Subtext.Andrea, the president of the user group, waited for the week of "Ferragosto" when almost all…

Singleton with VS2005 snippet

Ivan and the other guys in Wellington had their last Lunch with Geeks about Design Patterns. And came out with that idea: The most overused design pattern : Singleton. With the remark that a…

At home...

I just woke up after 12 hours of sleep. I landed yesterday I landed at Milano Malpensa at 11pm after almost 2 days of flights around the globe.London Heathrow is the most paranoid airport ever. I…

Blogging from Melbourne

I'm here at the Melbourne airport, after 4 hours and 30 minutes of flight over the Tasman Sea. The Qantas zone of the airport has free WiFi connectivity, which is very good, compared to the 5£ per…