Monthly Archives: March 2009

IE8 aggressive caching fix

Posted on 2009-03-20 by crydust

Apparently Internet Explorer 8 has a more aggressive caching mechanism than any other browser I’ve ever met. To fix it I’ve added the following to almost every dynamic page on my server. <% // prevent caching (asp classic jscript) Response.CacheControl … Continue reading →

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Silverlight vs Flash Chess

Posted on 2009-03-16 by crydust

After seeing the Silverlight Chess sample I immediately started work on a flash version. It needs a lot of optimizing, not a single variable type was set, so it’s not a very fair fight. Anyway … flash is about 10x faster than the ie7 js engine on my machine. But still a lot slower than silverlight.

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Generate Excel files in ASP Classic

Posted on 2009-03-02 by crydust

Generating Excel files in ASP Classic is not as easy as I thought. I hope someone finds use in this little piece of code that shows a way to export data to csv and to xls.

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