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Friday, November 02, 2007 2:42 PM

Speaking in Ann Arbor November 14th

I'll be presenting to the Ann Arbor .Net Developer's Group in two weeks on ASP.NET Caching Best Practices . The meeting starts at 6pm at SRT Solutions in Ann Arbor. You can find more information about the group and meeting location here: AADND.org Share
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Monday, October 29, 2007 12:00 PM

VaryByCustom Caching By User

Ran into an interesting bug today with one of my applications. A user control that provides messages based on a user's account was showing the wrong information to other users in our testing. The user control was set up with an output cache directive
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:15 AM

Caching Talk in Phoenix

Tuesday night I gave a presentation on caching in ASP.NET (with a bit of async performance tips thrown in at the end) to the Arizona .NET User Group in Phoenix, Arizona. A lot of the demos were similar to ones I've given before, including in my recent
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:25 PM

Caching in ASP.NET Show on dnrTV

I'm on dnrTV this week with a show about Caching in ASP.NET, one of my favorite topics . I think the whole show is a bit under an hour and I go through a bunch of demos and show off some of the less-well-known features of caching, such as cache profiles,
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Friday, August 03, 2007 11:56 AM

Real World ASP.NET Performance Tuning Experience

I'm in the midst of wrapping up a multi-year long project to replace the advertising engine used to host sponsored ads on a few dozen .NET web sites . This system traces its "lineage" back to an old ASP application written in 2001 (it served
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:56 AM

Update Cache in Background Thread

Peter Bromberg recently wrote an article on refreshing the ASP.NET cache , which referenced my ASP.NET Caching Best Practices article on MSDN . In my original article, I lamented the general uselessness of the CacheItemRemovedCallback feature, and wished
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:49 AM

Moscow User Group Presentation - Caching Best Practices

In my last post I wrote that I would be speaking in Moscow this week - well, I did so Monday night and it went quite well I thought. I have uploaded the presentation and demo code from the presentation as promised - sorry it took a couple of days but
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Monday, April 30, 2007 2:39 AM

Mr. Smith Goes to Moscow

I’ll be in Moscow next Monday, presenting to a .NET user group there. The topic will be .NET Caching Best Practices. The meeting place and time are as follows: Moscow dot NET Alliance (MDNA) Group Microsoft Russia, Building 1, 17 Krylatskaya Str.,
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:25 PM

ASP.NET Wish List

I’m at the MVP Summit this week in Seattle and one of the things this provides an opportunity for is providing feedback to the product teams. I certainly have plenty of ideas of my own for new features I’ve been longing to see in ASP.NET,
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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:30 PM

Real World Application Performance Tuning Example

Many of you know that I’m very much into high performance and scalability techniques. One thing you need to remember when applying performance tweaks is that as your application changes, your performance optimizations may need to change and evolve
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Monday, November 13, 2006 11:13 AM

Speaking in Arizona in March 2007

I’ll be speaking at the Arizona .NET user group on 7 March 2007 about Caching and Performance. More information here . The session’s description is: This session focuses on fundamentals of performance and scalability design, testing, and optimization,
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Friday, November 10, 2006 11:52 AM

DevConnections Fall 2006 Summary

Got back home last night from DevConnections in Las Vegas. It was a very good show this year in terms of content, products being launched, and numbers of attendees and exhibitors. I think I had more people in my sessions than usual, too, and they all
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Monday, November 06, 2006 2:56 AM

SqlDependency Issue Resolved

I’m doublechecking my demos for my sessions at DevConnections this week and I think I finally fixed an issue that has plagued me off and on for the last year or more when I’ve been demonstrating the new SQL 2005 SqlDependency features. It
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Friday, September 01, 2006 10:08 AM

Caching in O/R Mappers and Data Layers

Frans Bouma , creator of LLBLGen , MVP, and all around very smart guy, wrote yesterday about the ‘myth’ that caching inside an Object-Relational (O/R) mapper makes queries run faster or makes the O/R mapper more efficient . I think he’s
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Monday, July 17, 2006 12:20 PM

New Caching Video

I recored a quick video demonstrating the effects of a very short duration cache on a page that’s hitting the database more than 1/second ( microcaching ). This is one of my favorite demos when I give my caching presentations – I believe I
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