November 6th, 2009
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I’ve wanted a way to apply custom themes in ASP.NET MVC that “just works” for awhile. Sometimes you want to apply a new theme that switches out just a few CSS elements, or changes the structure of a specific view, or the entire site. There’s no out-of-the-box way to do that, and the existing solutions I’ve seen will only solve the CSS problem, or the views problem, but not both, or they require you to duplicate your views for every theme or use exact file names rather than your own, which…
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July 13th, 2009
If you’re like me, you’re more or less addicted to YSlow and getting the best performance for your web applications whenever you can. One challenge is to address multiple YSlow recommendations at the same time, particularly when it asks you to compress the content sent to clients, and in the same breath asks that ETags are used to avoid resending cached content for particular resources. In this excellent overview of some of the pitfalls of using ETags, you’ll learn that if you try to base your ETag value on compressed content, the timestamp-based format of that content will cause a new…
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