ASP.Net Load Testing and Optimization Toolkit R...

One of my passions is optimization. There's no code related task I like more than making something run better, faster, snappier -- from tweaking UI registry keys to stripping out crap code -- I want results.  Usually if something is noticeably slow on the user's end, there's something fundamentally wrong that can be made faster -- a lot faster. Why do I love optimization? It's because it's the...

ASP.Net Web Forms dying a slow death?

Being a web programmer for the last 10 years, I've seen a few different paradigms come and go in the web world. Looking around today, I can't help but think that the writings are on the wall for the ASP.Net "webforms" web application model. When it debuted, it was revolutionary to have a fully typed, compiled OO framework that was virtually portable to mobile and desktop. However, since then, ASP.Net...

Grandmaster Indeed

Catching up on my reading tonight and I ended up reading this post from end to end. It's a fairly interesting article, and takes a very long road to rehash the old adages of "if at first you don't succeed" and "practice makes perfect" set against a background of nerdly delights and the occasional introspective advisement. However, the form and prose of the post is blogging at it's finest. ...

10 Tips for Building Selenium Integration Tests

I've been developing an API for our testers to use when writing GUI integration tests and acceptance tests for our main AJAXified web product. Having chosen Selenium Remote Control as our test engine, and writing many tests by hand and with the Selenium IDE Firefox Plugin, I've delved deeply into Selenium this past several weeks. (I've also managed to not only isolate it from our testers, but make our tests portable to any...

HTML manipulation with System.Xml.XmlDocument

HTML Table of Contents Generator Example Sometimes it's easy to forget that HTML is just one type of XML, and hence you can utilize the System.Xml library for fun and profit with your HTML. System.Xml is full of powerful tools to manipulate well-formed documents, and you really don't need to know much about XML to leverage it. With two simple lines of code you can have a document loaded into a data structure that has...