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Help me understand my network

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Howard Dierking

(preface: I love my wife who, upon reading what I had originally written, suggested that I calm down and edit out some of the intro to this post) I’m in the midst of a home networking _situation_ right now, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 27 Comments

Installing Neo4j in an Azure Linux VM

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Howard Dierking

I’ve been playing with Neo4j a lot recently. I’ll be writing a lot more about that later, but at a very very high level, Neo4j is a graph database that in addition to some language-specific bindings has a slick HTTP … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Versioning RESTful Services

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Howard Dierking

I’ve talked about this in various venues and also cover it in my Pluralsight REST Fundamentals course, but the topic of how to version RESTful services has been popping up a bunch recently on some of the ASP.NET Web API … Continue reading →

Posted in architecture, HTTP | Tagged , , | 12 Comments

New Web Optimization Pre-Release Package on NuGet

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Howard Dierking

Today we pushed a new [pre]release of ASP.NET Web optimization to nuget.org – version 1.1.0-alpha1. This release includes some bug fixes and also a few new features that we wanted to share sooner than later. You may have also noticed … Continue reading →

Posted in Web | 21 Comments

Keeping in touch with the Web optimization team

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Howard Dierking

Now that the Web optimization framework is available on NuGet and as a part of Visual Studio 2012, we’ve had quite a few of you ask (on this blog as well as a variety of other places) how you can … Continue reading →

Posted in performance, Web | 3 Comments