Kent Alstad, CTO of Strangeloop Networks, is principal or contributing author on all of Strangeloop's pending patents. Before helping create Strangeloop, he served as CTO at IronPoint Technology. Kent also founded, Eclipse Software, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, that he sold to Discovery Software in 2001. In more than 20 years of professional development experience, Kent has served as architect and lead developer for successful production solutions with The Active Network, ADP, Lucent, Microsoft, and NCS. Kent holds a bachelor of science in psychology from the University of Calgary.
One of the reasons that ASP.NET has become popular as a framework for Web
developers is the availability of third-party controls and tools. This
third-party product support means that, when you're developing features and
functionality in an ASP.NET application, you have "buy versus build" options
in many areas. Usually, if the options are buying a third-party control or
rolling up your sleeves and manually coding the solution yourself, the choice
is an easy one. With the latter, you're looking at investing an unknown
amount of time and resources into re-creating something that already exists.
With the former, you get a known result and a drop-and-go solution.
What you may not realize, however, is that the possibilities for third-party
"buy" options extend far beyond controls. Today, ASP.NET developers can take
the same approach to many application performance optimiz... (more)
The evolution of Web sites to dynamic rich interactive applications is a true
revolution for users. But for ASP.NET developers tasked with building
high-performing scalable applications, it presents major challenges. The
features that characterize blogs, wikis, personalized pages, and other
data-driven Web 2.0 applications fundamentally change processing,
transmission, and rendering workloads, and require new approaches and
solutions. In Web 2.0 applications:
• Content is highly dynamic, with the most of the content generated by
users. The popularity of individual pages or the... (more)
Kent Alstad, CTO of Strangeloop Networks, is principal or contributing author on all of Strangeloop's pending patents. Before helping create Strangeloop, he served as CTO at IronPoint Technology. Kent also founded, Eclipse Software, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, that he sold to Discovery Software in 2001. In more than 20 years of professional development experience, Kent has served as architect and lead developer for successful production solutions with The Active Network, ADP, Lucent, Microsoft, and NCS. Kent holds a bachelor of science in psychology from the University of Calgary.
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