http://achiko.org/blog www.achiko.org Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:34:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that ... http://achiko.org/blog/2008/02/01/10-aspnet-performance-and-scalability-secrets/ Have you ever wondered what the English language looks? Yeah, neither have I. But a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University did, and tapping into the billions of images freely available on the Internet, they came up with a visual map of the ... http://achiko.org/blog/2008/01/26/what-does-the-english-language-look-like/ http://achiko.org/blog/2007/12/25/oscar-peterson-you-look-good-to-me/ It's a known fact that no two links are equally the same, in this research I attempted to see every two links as equals. While this obviously makes it impossible to create a 100% accurate piece of content, this - together with the dozens of interesting comments- results in ... http://achiko.org/blog/2007/12/10/link-value-factors-intro/ AJAX Cross Domain AJAX Cross Domain is a library that allows to perform cross-domain AJAX requests. Virtually all modern server-side scripting languages support remote requests in one or another form. In client-side javascript, this functionality is not present due to the Same Origin Policy. Though this policy is necessary for a robust ... http://achiko.org/blog/2007/12/10/ajax-cross-domain/ aqua, usa Read More >> http://achiko.org/blog/2007/12/09/top-9-unique-structures-soon-to-be-built/ 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know http://achiko.org/blog/2007/12/08/50-things-youre-not-supposed-to-know/ htmlSQL - a PHP class to query the web by an SQL like language. htmlSQL is a experimental PHP class which allows you to access HTML values by an SQL like syntax. This means that you don't have to write complex functions (regular expressions) to extract specific values. The htmlSQL queries ... http://achiko.org/blog/2007/12/08/htmlsql/ http://achiko.org/blog/2007/12/05/web-20-here-comes-another-bubble/ I started with this question as it has been something that's very interesting to me. About a year and a half ago I joined the service Last.fm, which serves many functions but most specifically logs all music that you listen to in real time. This creates a great amount of ... http://achiko.org/blog/2007/08/31/what-have-i-been-listening-to/