Page Request Blocking in Asynchronous ASP.NET MVC requests

On October 7, 2011, in Articles, by David Coombes

More and more websites are making use of the latest web technologies such as partial page post backs with ASP.NET and jQuery AJAX post with ASP.NET MVC There is common problem with these types of requests and that is serialisation.  IIS will serialise all requests to the same ASP.NET session for pages that have read [...]

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SplitMon v1.2

On October 21, 2010, in Utilities, by David Coombes

SplitMon is a virtual display utility that can divide your existing windows displays in a configurable number of virtual displays with varying resolutions. SplitMon has been developed to solve the spanning issue with RDP 5.1 when remotely connecting to a Windows XP machine. As the RDP protocol within Windows XP has no concept of multi [...]

 

ThreadInfo v1.00

On July 31, 2009, in Utilities, by David Coombes

ThreadInfo provides priority and CPU utilisation information of threads running on a Windows system. ThreadInfo details which process a thread belongs to, the processes base priority and the threads current running priority along with the percentage of CPU it consumed during the sample period. Usage Usage: ThreadInfo [-a][-v][-pid x][-r] [-t x][-admin] -a Show active threads [...]

 

Virtual Memory Fragmentation

On April 13, 2009, in Articles, by David Coombes

Virtual memory is a way of providing every running process with the same liner memory address space, all processes can allocate memory from the same virtual location as they are completely isolated from each other, an operating systems memory manager provides a translation from the processes virtual address space into the physical memory it occupies. [...]

 

AllocatePool v1.00

On April 13, 2009, in Utilities, by David Coombes

Allocate Pool is a utility for the 32-bit edition of Windows Server 2003 which allows you to allocate memory from two of the kernel mode system memory pools, paged and nonpaged pool. Paged and nonpaged pool are both regions of virtual memory located in the system part of address space. Kernel mode components such as [...]

 

OnTop V1.00

On March 10, 2009, in Utilities, by David Coombes

OnTop is a Windows utility that allows you to select any desktop window to be always on top. Select any window on your desktop and using your 2 registered hot keys you can force the window to be always on top or to follow the windows z-order.   Configuration The configuration dialog allows you to [...]

 

Graphical Media Player V1.0

On March 10, 2009, in Utilities, by David Coombes

Graphical Media Player (GMP) is an mp3 / m4a audio player featuring a spectrum analyser, oscilloscope and power bars. As an audio player it has the basic controls you would expect including play, pause, stop, next, previous, repeat and shuffle. There are 3 defined views. Normal mode which combines the spectrum analyser and play list, [...]