OFF TOPIC: New Developer Tool By Auri: WebPrecompiler v1.0
I released a new tool for web developers today, WebPrecompiler. This is my second developer utility for 2006. The first one was Lipsum, the Lorem Ipsum Generator add-in for Visual Studio.NET 2003 and 2005.
Here's the info:
Download it
here.
What Is WebPrecompiler?
When you release an ASP, ASP.NET, JSP (and yes, other dynamic CGI) site, the first
time loading a page takes a moment while the server executes and caches the page
or application. This can translate to a perception of slow performance. In addition,
there’s a tangible benefit to hitting HTML files in IIS and many other web servers
– the HTML files are loaded into memory and served from there instead of the hard
drive or other storage medium. It’s much, much faster to retrieve data from RAM
than the hard drive, so it pays to have every application and every HTML file cached
when you deploy a site. The problem is, there are many, many files on a standard
web site, and it’s quite laborious to hit all of them.
Enter WebPrecompiler. Give it the path to your web site, and give it the URL, then
tell it what file types to hit (ASPX, ASP, JSP, and HTML), and it will scan the folder
and all subfolders for all the files of the selected types and then hit every page on that site, triggering your web server
to compile and/or cache all the files users hit on your site. WebPrecompiler also
lets you save sites you commonly need to deploy, so you don’t have to enter their
data all the time. To make things even more convenient, WebPrecompiler comes in
two versions: one that runs directly inside of Visual Studio 2005, and a standalone
application that can be run on any PC running Windows 98SE or higher.