Tenets of Distributed Caching
Here are some of the popular distributed caching products…
- Memcached
- Windows Server AppFabric Cache (formerly Velocity)
Here are some of the principles to keep in mind while creating your caching layer…
Source: slideshare.net
Documenting your ASP.Net Web API’s
For reference…
Great infographic on Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate Statistics
Source: invesp.com
Source: codeproject.com
Types of NoSQL datastores
Here’s an excerpt from an excellent article by Robert Rees @ ThoughtWorks…
Source: thoughtworks.com
Managing Geeks?
then read this…
Embed Source Code In Tumblr Blog Posts Using GitHub Gist
Being a developer, we often write code related blog posts and often struggle with its’ formatting. Here’s what I need:
- Render code with good formatting
- Allow copy and paste
- Allow me to manage changes to the code
It’s been around for a while now, but Gist deserves to be the source view provider on all blogs. This post details how to get that to work on Tumblr in less than 5 minutes.
All CSS Vertical Navigation Menu Ribbon
Here’s a working demo.
I was on a mid size business site recently and happened to discover how they did their vertical navigation menu ribbon. This is no rocket science, but was surprised that they had built a space ship by embedding image tags and additional spans, stuff that should be pure CSS concern, to their DOM.
Inserting Large Amounts Of Data In SQL Server
SQL Server supports importing data from text files. This is a really performant way to insert large data sets in a single operation. The following example imports it from a CSV file:
bulk insert test from ‘C:\data.csv’
with
(
fieldterminator=’,’,
rowterminator=’\n’
)
I used this technique in Socialtops to insert large amount of data for SQL processing.
