10 strike plan to grease your site for speed. - Webdistortion I’ve recently spoke of the importance of speed with your website or blog. It can have a significant impact on site goals, and in many cases improve bounce rates and increase page views. Paying attention to detail and improving page load speed can really get your pages performing at their optimum. 1) All Sites – on page speed Javascript Google host a variety of popular javascript libraries for web developers, and this standardised hosting platform provides a central repository for developers. This has a couple of benefits. 2) Images There are a number of way to optimise images for speed. I’ve found in the past the compression engine within Fireworks to be superior to Photoshop when analysing quality verses size. 3) Lowering web requests Web requests are individual web page calls to a web server for a file. You should do everything in your power to lower the number of requests that you make – the lower that number the better. 4) Client Side Compression 5) Server Side Compression Cache Plugins
jquery parse json multidimensional array JsMini.com - Minify Your Javascript/jQuery Code Online How do I force SSL on my ASP/.NET site on Cloud Sites? Below are three examples of how to force SSL on your ASP or ASP.NET site. web.config If your website has the IIS Rewrite Module available*, you can use rewrite rules in your web.config to force SSL on all pages: Please contact support if you are unsure if the IIS Rewrite Module is available for your site. The above example could be modified to force SSL on one page or specific pages. ASP.NET (Non MVC 3) Using ASP.NET you can use this code snippet to force SSL on a page on your site: When using the "RequireHttps" attribute to decorate actions within your MVC application: Classic ASP Using classic ASP you can use this code snippet to force SSL on a page on your site: © 2011-2013 Rackspace US, Inc. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License See license specifics and DISCLAIMER
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier The JavaScript Minifier Douglas Crockfordwww.crockford.com JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. What JSMin Does JSMin is a filter that omits or modifies some characters. JSMin first replaces carriage returns ('\r') with linefeeds ('\n'). It omits spaces except when a space is preceded and followed by a non-ASCII character or by an ASCII letter or digit, or by one of these characters: It is more conservative in omitting linefeeds, because linefeeds are sometimes treated as semicolons. and if it follows a non-ASCII character or an ASCII letter or digit or one of these characters: No other characters are omitted or modified. JSMin knows to not modify quoted strings and regular expression literals. JSMin does not obfuscate, but it does uglify. Before: After: Character Set JSMin requires, but does not verify, that the character set encoding of the input program is either ASCII or UTF-8. Caution Be sure to retain your original source file. a + ++b
ASP.NET - Browser speed on localhost Don't let jQuery's $(document).ready() slow you down jQuery’s $(document).ready() event is something that you probably learned about in your earliest exposure to jQuery and then rarely thought about again. The way it abstracts away DOM timing issues is like a warm security blanket for code running in a variety of cold, harsh browser windows. Between that comforting insurance and the fact that deferring everything until $(document).ready() will never break your code, it’s understandable not to give much thought to its necessity. However, what if $(document).ready() is slowing you down? Example: live() One of the most popular uses for jQuery’s live() is to maintain event handlers on elements that are dynamically created and destroyed over time. Imagine that we have an application with several slideToggling sidebar blocks which may be dynamically added and removed while the user interacts with the page. <html><head><script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"><! Benefit: A more responsive UI Conclusion
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How can I test PHP mail functionality? | Cloud Computing and Web Hosting Knowledge Center by Rackspace You can use the following code saved into a file with a .php extension to test PHP mail functionality: IMPORTANT NOTE: We strongly recommend using an SMTP relay that requires authentication. Sending mail through unauthenticated SMTP servers (including the localhost relay on Cloud Sites) can result in delays or undelivered email due to stringent anti-spam filters. Or you can use this test code: © 2011-2013 Rackspace US, Inc. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License See license specifics and DISCLAIMER
How Good C# Habits can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits: Part 1 | Enterprise jQuery This is the first post in a multi-part series covering common mistakes C# developers tend to make when they first start writing JavaScript. Introduction Many people come to jQuery and believe that their knowledge of a previous classical language (C#, Java, etc) will help them be successful at client-side scripting. You can use your classical language skills to accomplish a large amount of functionality with jQuery. However, the more client-side code you write you will find yourself uncovering strange bugs because you didn’t take adequate time to learn JavaScript properly. “…it turns out that if you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing in the language you can still generally make things work.” This article is targeted for developers that use jQuery but haven’t invested the time necessary to learn JavaScript. jQuery is a library that is written in JavaScript. Bad Practices 1. A best practice in C# is to limit the use of global variables. Bad Practice Object Literal (All Public) Pros Cons