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...

Build a CentOS LAMP server

I finally finished re-building a development CentOS LAMP server. More importantly, and the primary purpose of the whole exercise, is that I finished my guide to building a CentOS LAMP server. I am happy to now post said guide on this blog (under Articles), for everyone to read and abuse as they please! So here you go… may I present Blake's CentOS LAMP Server Guide, single-page edition, and the perhaps friendlier...

Code Camp

I hate airplanes. They need to reorganize the layout of planes into First Class, Business, Coach, and Contagious. Walking disease vectors can have their own little self contained universe in the plane, cut off from recycling their plagues into our breathing space. Can you tell I'm sick? Well, at least it happened at the end of my vacation. Regardless of my sore throat, I lurched my way to Victoria Code Camp...