Articles by GLAV

CacheAdapter 2.5–Memcached revised

Note: For more information around the CacheAdapter, see my previous postshere,here,hereandhereYou may have noticed a number of updates to theCacheAdapterpackage on nuget as of late. These are all related to performance and stability improvements for thememcachedcomponent...

CacheAdapter 2.4 – Bug fixes and minor functional update

By Glav

Note: If you are unfamiliar with the CacheAdapter library and what it does, you can read all about its awesome ability to utilise memory, Asp.Net Web, Windows Azure AppFabric and memcached caching implementations via a single unified, simple to use API fromhereandhere..The...

ASP.NET Web Api–Request/Response/Usage Logging

By Glav

Forpart 1of this series of blog posts on ASP.Net Web Api \u2013see here.IntroductionIn Part 2 of this blog post series, we deal with the common requirement of logging, or recording the usage of your Web Api. That is, recording when an Api call was made, what...

MVC4 and Web Api– make an Api the way you always wanted–Part 1

By Glav

ASP.NET MVC is a huge success as framework and just recently,ASP.NET MVC4 Betawas released. While there are many changes in this release, I want to specifically focus on the WebApi portion of this.In previous flavours of MVC, many people wanted to develop REST...

My Code Kata–A Solution Kata

By Glav

There are many developers and coders out there who like to docode Kata'sto keep their coding ability up to scratch and to practice their skills. I think it is a good idea.While I like the concept, I find them dead boring and of minimal purpose. Yes, they...

Updates to the CacheAdapter Package

By Glav

Note: This post was originally going to detail the changes from 2.0 to 2.1, however in between the time of release and this post, I released 2.2 so this post will detail all the changes up to 2.2.In the last update to myCacheAdapterlibrary (you can view ithere),...

Converting from Webforms view engine to Razor–Some Tips

By Glav

Recently, I have had to perform a lot of conversion in an MVC application from using the webforms view engine to the Razor view engine.I say "had to" but we didn't really have to, more wanted to. We wanted the cleaner syntax that razor allows....

CacheAdapter–Now a Nuget package

By Glav

A while ago, Iblogged about a personal projectaround caching that allowed you to abstract away the underlying cache mechanism, and use whatever cache you wanted. Through simple configuration, you can choose to use either the memory cache provided by System.Runtime.Caching...

Diskeeper–a short review

By Glav

I have been lucky enough to be ASP.NET MVP for a number of years now. One of the perks of that is you get access to free licences of software such asDiskeeper. This piece of software keeps your disks running as smooth as they possibly can.I have been usingDiskeeperfor...

Entity Framework and the PreApplicationStartMethod attribute

By Glav

Recently, while implementing an EntityFramework data model into a new application, I thought I'd add some caching functionality early, to establish a framework going forward. I added the DBML (generated from a database), and added in my funky caching layer...