Ultra-Fast ASP.NET presents a practical approach to building fast and scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets, you'll find advice and code examples for all tiers of your application, including the client, caching, IIS 7, ASP.NET, threads, session state, SQL Server, Analysis Services, infrastructure and operations. By applying the ultra-fast approach to your projects, you'll squeeze every last ounce of performance out of your code and infrastructure—giving your site unrivaled speed. The approach is mostly prescriptive; rather than drowning you in options, the book presents and explains specific high-impact recommendations and demonstrates them with detailed examples. Using this knowledge, you will soon be building high-performance web sites that scale easily as your site grows.

Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5 presents a practical approach to building fast and scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets, you'll find advice and code examples for all tiers of your application, including the client, caching, IIS 7.5, ASP.NET 4.5, threads, session state, SQL Server 2012 (otherwise known as Denali), Analysis Services, infrastructure and operations. By applying author Rick Kiessig's ultra-fast approach to your projects, you’ll squeeze every last ounce of performance out of your code and infrastructure—giving your site unrivaled speed. Rather than drowning you in options, Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5 presents and explains specific high-impact recommendations and demonstrates them with detailed examples. Using this knowledge, you will soon be building high-performance web sites that scale easily as your site grows. Apply the key principles that will help you build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites. Identify performance traps (such as with session state) and learn how to avoid them. Put into practice an end-to-end systems-based approach to web site performance and scalability, which includes everything from the browser and the network to caching, back-end operations, hardware infrastructure, and your software development process.

Create your maximum PC with the Maximum PC Ultimate Performance Guide. This 350 page guide is full of succinct, practical advice that you can use to build, supercharge and customize your PC. You will learn your PC from the outside-in, including how to choose the best case and hardware, how to tweak your PC settings to maximize performance and how to customize and exploit the features of your Windows operating system. This book truly is your ultimate guide to everything you need to know about your PC and it is the only one endorsed by the top name in PC hardware technology, Maximum PC.

Written by a team of Flash experts, this guide offers an introductory section to provide a foundation for understanding Flash. The rest of the book demonstrates the creation of more than 20 sample Web sites that use Flash to solve specific graphics challenges, such as designing a multimedia game. The CD-ROM contains an interactive multimedia piece about the book, links to all Flash resources on the Web, and sample applications.