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Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions–LIDNUG

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:52:00 GMT

Here’s the recent presentation made on LIDNUG on scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users. Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users by Omar AL Zabir Here’re the slides. Scaling asp.net websites to millions of users...(read more)

Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with Autobox

Mehfuz's WebLog — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:47:10 GMT

This will post will show how you can use AutoBox to easily write a bootstrapper for ASP.NET MVC. I have used the latest version of AutoBox (available from nuget, this version also includes Castle.Windsor internally for managing dependencies rather using...(read more)

Assert the order of expected calls over instances

Mehfuz's WebLog — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:24:10 GMT

You want to assert that user is validated before withdrawing amount from an account. JustMock lets you specify the order in which your setups should be executed. This helps you to identify the exact way in which a particular logic is implemented. ...(read more)

Browse internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:01:00 GMT

Internet is full of flash ads nowadays that make page load slower, render slower and consumes more CPU, thus power. If you can browse without having any flash ads or in fact any ads loaded and without any of the tracking scripts – you can browse...(read more)

Get Dropthings license by donating to charity

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:41:16 GMT

Now you no longer pay me for Dropthings license instead you donate the money to a charity and I will give you the license. In case you don’t know what Dropthings is, it is a Web 2.0 Personalizable Dashboard framework that you can use to build Web 2.0...(read more)

“iStock Broking“ our second WPF kid.

Nazmul weblog — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

"যদি তোর ডাক শুনে কেউ না আসে ... তবে একলা চলরে", when whole world fighting for get the answer "Is WPF dead?!!" we have been successfully start deploying our second product build on WPF to local client end. We have worked around 2yrs...(read more)

Asserting a mock with test framework

Mehfuz's WebLog — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:44:40 GMT

When asserting an expected call for its number of occurrences or may be just to verify if the setup/arrange is acted as intended, the tool generally raises assertion that points us to the reason why the test failed. Different mocking tools use different...(read more)

Future mocking with #IgnoreInstance

Mehfuz's WebLog — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:36:41 GMT

In my previous post, i showed how JustMock picks mock expectations based on current context without the instance being injected. Based on feedback we found that It’s sometimes confusing and often does not work as intended. However, the context of this...(read more)

Introducing AutoBox - On the fly dependency injection and caching container.

Mehfuz's WebLog — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:00:29 GMT

Just when we have dependencies for a controller, we need to wrap around our heads to write a bootstrapper that will dynamically inject dependencies for a controller in runtime and once we we want to do data caching like a particular method in accounts...(read more)

MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:16:52 GMT

Microsoft Research arranged MVP Open Day 2011 at Cambridge on Oct 24, 2011. Beautiful university, made me feel like giving up my job and going back to study. Amazing research work going there, very thought provoking. The session on DNA programming was...(read more)

Prevent ASP.NET cookies from being sent on every css, js, image request

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:57:19 GMT

ASP.NET generates some large cookies if you are using ASP.NET membership provider. Especially if you are using the Anonymous provider, then a typical site will send the following cookies to every request when a user is logged in, whether the request is...(read more)

Future mocking revisited

Mehfuz's WebLog — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:06:41 GMT

Previously , I have posted how it is possible to mock a method without passing the dependency through a constructor / calling method. This is something true for third party controls and tools where we have little control over how its created. You can...(read more)

PostSharp and JustMock side by side.

Mehfuz's WebLog — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:00:46 GMT

In this post I will show mocking a member call inside a postsharp aspect. There were previously compatibility issues between both of the tools running side by side which is now been officially fixed with the most recent release of that tool (>= 2.1...(read more)

Tweaking WCF to build highly scalable async REST API

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:57:00 GMT

At 9 AM in the morning, during the peak traffic for your business, you get an emergency call that the website you built is no more. It’s not responding to any request. Some people can see some page after waiting for long time but most can’t. So, you think...(read more)

Build truly RESTful API and website using same ASP.NET MVC code

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:15:27 GMT

A truly RESTful API means you have unique URLs to uniquely represent entities and collections, and there is no verb/action on the URL. You cannot have URL like /Customers/Create or /Customers/John/Update, /Customers/John/Delete where the action is part...(read more)