Miscellanea 6
IIS7 Compression. Good? Bad? How Much?
I've, more often than not, seen IIS compression either ignored or treated as an incomprehensible black-art. This blog entry makes the costs/benefits and the differing levels available with IIS7 absolutely crystal clear. A must read.
Application logging - yes it is important
One thing not mentioned in this post is the Windows Event Log, I can't remember where I read it but I'm fairly sure that the "lowest cost" way to log in a Windows environment is using the event log. Nothing else will return control to your program quicker, with a lower disk/cpu cost than the event log. Well, other than not logging ;) ... With Vista/Server 2008 the event log gets a lot more powerful.
Vista's UAC: 8 ways how to elevate an application to run it with Administrator rights
Not a lot more to say other than, turn UAC off at your peril. It's worth its weight in gold. Heavy gold at that!
I've, more often than not, seen IIS compression either ignored or treated as an incomprehensible black-art. This blog entry makes the costs/benefits and the differing levels available with IIS7 absolutely crystal clear. A must read.
Application logging - yes it is important
One thing not mentioned in this post is the Windows Event Log, I can't remember where I read it but I'm fairly sure that the "lowest cost" way to log in a Windows environment is using the event log. Nothing else will return control to your program quicker, with a lower disk/cpu cost than the event log. Well, other than not logging ;) ... With Vista/Server 2008 the event log gets a lot more powerful.
Vista's UAC: 8 ways how to elevate an application to run it with Administrator rights
Not a lot more to say other than, turn UAC off at your peril. It's worth its weight in gold. Heavy gold at that!
