Smashing magazine posted a Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers finally had the chance to start watching these videos(on the bus :)) The first one deals with Speeding up your JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas Very interesting talk: While watching this remember that you should take the problematic places that need to perform better and make the changes there( as Nicholas also stated at the beginning of the talk and also in this post following the talk ). I think that performance...

Using Stub Entities in Entity Framework Screencasts Today I recorded my first two screencasts (one in English and one in Hebrew) about how to use stub entities in Entity Framework in order to produce better performance by reducing database round trips. The link to the English version can be found here . The link to the Hebrew version can be found here . You can also download the screencasts in the details tab if you like. Enjoy!

Samsung techies linked 24 of the company's 256GB SSD (Solid State Drives) together in a RAID configuration with the hopes of making the fast SSDs even faster. The system actually reaches a whooping transfer speeds of 2GBps (!!). Amazing how disks become the real bottlenecks of today's computers. Check out this video, you don’t see that kind of speed every day :)

[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/what-boots-faster-%e2%80%93-netbook-powered-windows-xp-or-nokia-e71-mobile-phone/ ] Some days ago, somebody from Microsoft was shocked, when I told him, that I’m planning to run Windows XP (and later Windows 7) as operation system for mission critical automotive device. He even checked with Windows XP embedded team boot times for XP. They told him, that the minimum can be achieved is...

Webcast: מעבר פשוט מ ASP.NET 2.0 WebService ל WCF OK , יכול להיות שבסרטונים קודמים של WCF לא הבנו כ"כ את ה"וואו" ,ו Console Application לא במיוחד עושה לנו את זה - אבל את הדוגמאות "המקבילות" של WebService כן הבנו והשתמשנו. אז עכשיו לאור זה שהורידו יותר סרטים של ASP.NET 2.0 WebService כמעט מכל סרטון אחר, החלטתי לעשות לכם את החיבור בין WebService ל WCF + לתת לכם דוגמא נוספת אשר מסבירה למה יש סביב זה "וואו" גדול אשר תסביר למה מוסיפים לזה את ה TAG של SOA לפעמים =) View...