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Hanselminutes Podcast 175 - Optimizing Your Website with Jeff Atwood and Stackoverflow

Posted 2009-08-17 10:28 AM in ASP.NET | ASP.NET MVC | Podcast.

JeffAtwood My one-hundred-and-seventy-fifth podcast is up. It's the return of Jeff Atwood. He and the team have been making lots of great speed optimizations to Stackoverflow lately. What tools are they using? What kinds of speed improvements are they seeing, and what can you do to exploit their experience?

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Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET. It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate about Telerik is their commitment to completeness. For example, they have a page about their Right-to-Left support while some vendors have zero support, or don't bother testing. They also are committed to XHTML compliance and publish their roadmap. It's nice when your controls vendor is very transparent.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?

Monday, August 17, 2009 6:32:31 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

It is always great to read or hear Atwood. However, it seems that he's now too strict regarding topics related to Stack Overflow.

It is like: "If we don't need on Stack Overflow, it is a overkill".

Daniel

Monday, August 17, 2009 7:32:37 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Great podcast as usual.

To the question around 25 mins that Scott asks of, does saving those extra bytes really matter when we have so many computing resources ... one thought I might add is that sometimes just that 1 extra byte will throw you into an extra network packet. Typically packets are fast, especially sent one after the other ... but there is always a chance that that one extra packet costs noticeable latency. People may be calling in on their cell phone modem .. or we even get people calling in still on real modems. Packets can be slow. Why risk the extra delay. In the end every little bit really does matter.

Peter H.

Monday, August 17, 2009 7:48:06 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

How odd during this summertime podcast that Jeff makes a point of stating his peak load time as 10pm pacific standard time. He references PST quite a few times.

I guess that refers to 11pm pacific daylight time, for the rest of us.

The Dawg

Monday, August 17, 2009 7:50:19 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hey just noticed even the timestamps on comments on this site are PST. Wow some kind of PST conspiracy here.

Remember the car talk guys suggest we go on Daylight Saving Time year round ... not on Standard Time year round.

Daylight Saving Time is way better, guys. Embrace it.

The Dawg

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:12:42 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

This was the most usefull show for me so far. I downloaded Page Speed and amazed about the quality of information you get.

I am realy curious about the SQL-optimization Jeff talked about. Especially the "not so obvious" tweeks I would like to see. Is there any chance for a Hanselminute about that?

Mathias F.

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