February 2005 - Onion Blog

  • Liquid cooled no longer

    After building my first custom desktop computer last fall, I took the plunge and decided to install a liquid cooling system to quell the jet-engine-like noise generated by the 4500 rpm cpu fan whenever I tasked the system. It took me almost as long to...
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  • Async tasks in ASP.NET 2.0

    In an earlier post , I looked at the new async page feature in ASP.NET 2.0. Several people asked the very good question - what if I wanted to make multiple asynchronous Web service calls instead of just one (which is what my sample showed)? Fortunately...
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  • Dynamic image generation in custom controls

    I was teaching our Applied ASP.NET course the other week to a client that needed to do some server-side image generation from large sets of telemetry data, and I thought I'd share a technique for doing this from within a custom control that I showed them...
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  • Slashdot Server Spike

    Funny story. So I'm here at VSLive! in San Francisco this week, and last night I just happened to check our server statistics on pluralsight.com and here's what I saw: Our server had suddenly spike to serving over 3Mbps of request data at 1pm or so. As...
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  • Curriculum expansion

    I'm happy to announce that we have expanded our course offerings here at Pluralsight - check out our more comprehensive collection of courses here . I had a great time presenting Applied ASP.NET last week in the middle of the colossal snowstorm in Boston...
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