Background HTTP fetching and cacheing in ASP/VBScript September 22nd, 2008
Getting ASP to embrace Web 1.1 is as easy, and as pretty, as you’d imagine.
Save our servers! June 11th, 2007
Sick and tired of getting a million hits, all to the same page, which more often than not hasn’t been updated in the mean time? Want to reduce your bandwidth and server-time loads without necessarily impairing your visitors’ experience of your site?
If you haven’t ever had cause to use it, there’s a standard called ETag [...]
CFJavaXML - a component for cached XML transformations February 9th, 2007
Mark Mandel wrote his own version of Coldfusion’s XmlTransform() function, using the underlying Java transform classes. Although one of his annoyances—that XmlTransform() won’t take any parameters—has been solved in CFMX7, XmlTransform() is nonetheless a slow operation, as the transform engine has to be cranked up, the XSL compiled, the transform effected and then everything garbage-collected, [...]