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Posts from ‘May, 2010’

Speed Up Your ASP.NET Web Site with Gzip Compression

I’ve used gzip compression on Apache/PHP projects before and the results are usually awesome. Especially for static files like CSS and Javascript files that compress to 30% of their original size.
Now that we’re using ASP.NET and Umbraco so much these days I needed to figure out how to get gzip compression working in IIS. [...]

How to Generate an RSS Feed from Facebook

Facebook unlike Twitter and blogs do not publish an RSS feed for us. In addition it’s content is behind a login. This makes Facebook very challenging to monitor. This is a method for generating an RSS feed of content from Facebook utilizing Google search, Open Dapper and topping it off with an RSS reader. Note
The idea [...]