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Compression on the web is surprisingly underused

Eric Lawrence posted an article the other day on web compression [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2014/10/21/http-compression-optimize-file-formats-with-deflate.aspx] , focusing a bunch of different algorithms, what should get compressed and how to get the best performance on your site based on mixing minification and compression. It’

Google's Material Design Spec is a great idea

Google just released their first major update to their Material Design Spec. [http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html] Originally released back in June, the spec is a document that outlines the best approach to application design based on their material design philosophy. It’s goal is to:

Install Windows 10 from a USB Flash Drive

How to install Windows 10 from a bootable usb flash drive using diskpart and the command line. Or any version of Windows, really.

Tools Amplify Talent

My sister in law’s dad picked up golf a few years ago. We’ll call him George, because that’s a pretty generic name and he was curious about golf. Anyway. On the morning of my then-girlfriend’s-brother’s-wedding-to-his-then-girlfriend (complicated, I know) we played a round of golf. George

If you're using enum.ToString() that often, you're doing it wrong

Daniel Wertheim measured the performance of enum.ToString and found it to be 400x slower than using a comparable class with const’s. [http://danielwertheim.se/2014/09/30/c-someenum-tostring-measured-to-be-400x-slower/] That’s a massive difference, and something that, in theory, might make you think otherwise about using an enum. But

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