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Letting browsers cache files is a great way to improve your page load speed but also to reduce your bandwidth usage and ultimately save some money. It’s a win-win situation! Yslow recomends that files are cached at least 2 days, Googles Page Speed recommend 30 days. However, letting visitors cache css and javascript files can [...]
The iPhone (and now iPad) SDK supports reverse geocoding out of the box. Reverse geocoding means you have a coordinate and want to find out where you are located, for instance, the name of the street you are on. Forward geocoding means you know the name of a location and want to find the coordinates. For [...]
If your EPiServer site is running a version older than CMS5 R2 and you (or your clients) are using Internet Explorer 8 you’re having problems creating XForms. There are multiple issues with XForms in versions prior to CMS5 R2 that can be somewhat confusing. A form created with IE6 will work for a visitor using [...]
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes the same powerful infrastructure for auditing user access to list items, and documents and pages included in MOSS. The only difference in auditing functionality between MOSS and WSS is that the UI for configuring and viewing audit trails has been removed. Microsoft provides information and code on MSDN on [...]
Enabling gzip compression is an easy way to make your site load faster, but how do you go about doing so for your EPiServer site and why should you?
Gzip compression will reduce the size of a text file (such as html markup, css, js and files) up to some 90%. If your user is on [...]
I recently banged my head against this one. I wanted a list of past meetings and another list for upcoming meetings in my meetings workspace. The calendar is picked up from the parent site using a DataFormWebPart and the “Connect to another library” function. This was all well and good, however, I needed the workspace [...]
This week we finally got around to upgrade our old Exchange 2003 server, fortunately we waited a few extra months and skipped Exchange 2007 for 2010. The upgrade was handled by our friendly neighbor and also our new ISP: DGC. We did encounter one problem after the upgrade that I assume others will face as [...]
Spotify is an awesome app for the iPhone, however, you need a premium account. Or do you? Most users will probably use the off-line mode to avoid the sometimes overly expensive data plans. If you don’t want or need to stream music it turns out you really don’t need a premium account! At least not [...]
With this blog I try to provide useful tips and solutions for programming .NET, Objective-C and more. My name is Björn Sållarp, and I love writing code.