I refactored quit a lot of code on my site Tech Head Brothers this week and went to bed late (around 1:30 AM each day). But now it is running better and faster. I removed the rendering to Pdf using NFop of the articles because it works locally on my TEST server but not on the PROD one.<br/><br/>One of the speed improvement is due to the complete reimplementation of a user control that download a RSS to publishnews on my site. The issue with the previous method was that the cache was buggy. Now what I am doing is to to use two values in cache, one is the RSS document (a XML document as a string) and that one never expire:

As you know if you read my blog I am using Sauce Reader from Synop to publish on my blog. It is a great tool, even if it needs some more work. They are really active in development and fixing issues that users are reporting. One thing I was missing on the publishing part was a way to simply add a picture to my blog. I had to start SmartFTP (btw a nice tool also) just to upload several pictures.

Hey I am VIP now!!! When I see that my friend Rédo added my link between Don and Lutz :-) :-)

Yesterday, my friend Ed Daniel, forwarded me a link to this article: The Great .NET Identity Crisis from Graham Parker.<br/><br/>I have to say that really liked the article (this is why I blog about it), but I would have replaced "The role of the developer today is about adding value to the business" by "The role of the developer <strike>today</strike> is about adding value to the business". It was always the case.