The problem: a blog post is supposed to show a temperature chart. The chart is served by a remote server, running SQL Reporting Services. The table with the temperature data contains 100,000s of rows and the server that hosts the SQL database and Reporting Services is an older Athlon box. Serving that image can take [...]

www.austria-boston.org, an ASP 1.0 site, was hosted by a company called Burlee starting about 6 years ago. Burlee was later acquired by Interland, and ended up as a part of Web.com. The hosting fees were never adjusted and ended up being disproportionally high, so I started looking around for an alternative to realize some savings [...]

The characteristics of how people use the web are changing quicker and more profoundly than ever before. Some of the paradigms that we have grown so used to over the past 10 years all of a sudden don’t make sense anymore. This is the Web 2.0, it is great, I am all for it. As [...]

Last week, I attended the Sys-Con “Real-World Ajax” Seminar in New York. I have not yet decided if the event deserves a blog entry – some of the 10 presentations where definitely interesting. But one thing that came up consistently was the term ‘mashup‘. A mashup is a web application that combines data or services [...]

My Point of View paper was published on Molecular’s website today. From the content: It would be hard to imagine today’s Web without Content Management Systems (CMS). The volume of content on the Web is increasing at a record pace, yet businesses and consumers alike are expecting to find just the right information, in just [...]

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