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If you’ve worked on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform for any length of time, in an environment where you had to manage deployment of your application across multiple servers, then you’ve probably stared at .config files until your head pounds. In the past we often managed this by keeping multiple copies of each .config and using [...]

I’ve never really been a huge javascript fan. I learned to program using an interpreted, weakly-typed language called BASIC. It was fun, interactive, stream-of-consciousness, creative, and a great way to learn the, um, basics. It was also pretty hard to write big, complicated programs in it. I happened to learn the language back in the [...]

After five years running my site on Network Solutions I finally grew tired of their performance issues. It was taking 60-120 seconds to load the home page on some occasions, and inquiries to tech support just got me form replies reminding me I was on a shared platform, and advising me about optimizing my javascript [...]