Archive for February 2009

Slow IIS on Vista with Firefox, Chrome or Safari

Posted on 19 February 2009, 21:54, by Ola, under ASP.NET, Web.

Ever noticed that sites are way slower in Firefox / Safari / Chrome and so on when you try to debug a website localhost on Vista.  Apperently there is some kind of DNS bug caused by IPv6. To fix it in Firefox you can type about:config and look up network.dns.disableIPv6 but this doesn’t fix the [...]

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file_get_contents() in asp.net/C#

Posted on 13 February 2009, 12:25, by Ola, under ASP.NET, C#, php.

The URL shortening service http://bit.ly has a really simple and convient API that lets just get a short url like this. http://bit.ly/api?url=http://www.myreallylong.com/url/with/lots?of=crap I’ve used this in a wordpress installation with PHP before and there i could just do. $twitter_url .= file_get_contents(’http://bit.ly/api?url=’ . get_permalink()); Simple and clean. But today i wanted to do the same thing [...]

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