The Ultimate Checklist for building modern websites in ASP.NET

Web page performance is always important to us. We always like to ensure that any new features that we develop keep the application running efficiently and hopefully faster, if not equal to, the speed of the last release. The Web Development Checklist is really a simple guide with a few checks that you could do […]

Wowza Adaptive Streaming Engine

Wowza is an adaptive stream engine that is used for streaming high-quality video and audio to any device. It provides live and on-demand streaming of media player technologies. It can deliver content to many popular media players such as Flash Player, Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, JWPlayer, etc. Wowza Streaming Engine includes support for many […]

Know-How’s of Visual Studio 2013 on ASP.NET MVC 5

The release of Visual Studio 2013 has unified the experience of using ASP.NET technologies. ASP.NET MVC 5 is the latest version developed with suggestions and contributions from the .NET community. ASP.NET MVC 5 comes along with the official release of Visual Studio 2013. What’s with Visual Studio 2013? Visual Studio 2013 offers a free web […]

What is Elastic Search?

Elastic search is a real-time search and analytics engine. It is based on Apache Lucene and is open-source. It is designed to be scalable which means it is distributed and has Node Discovery in it. So it can automatically recognize other elastic search nodes and connect to them if required. It does automatic sharding, in […]

Installing the Burp SSL certificate in your browser

One of the functions of SSL is to authenticate the identity of webservers. To intercept traffic between your browser and webservers, Burp needs to break the SSL connection. This causes a security warning in your browser because it detects that it is not communicating directly with the authentic web server. Burp generates an SSL certificate […]

Find the MIME type of a file based on the file signature

Sometimes we need to store images in a database instead of as physical files. For this purpose, the SQL Server database provides a data type called image. For the sake of simplicity, the extension of the file is also stored with image content. The extension will help to identify the MIME type when loading the […]

How to record HTTPS with JMeter | JMeter Recording

To record HTTPS traffic, one needs to configure the browser proxy settings and JMeter proxy server. In the browser proxy server, the following changes should be made. Go to the options tab in the firefox browser and click Advanced >> View Certificates >> Authorities. Check for the Apache Software Foundation, JMeter Proxy Certificate and select […]

Backend as a Service (BaaS) in a Box

Backend as a Service (BaaS) in a Box BaasBox is an Open Source that provides a complete solution for managing the backend of web and mobile applications. Backend as a Service allows mobile app developers to set up and operate a cloud-based backend for their mobile and web apps. All the backend features are in […]

The Usability Factor – WordPress vs Drupal

WordPress and Drupal are popular platforms used by individuals and businesses to create websites. The majority of the bloggers and webmasters will choose WordPress as it is simple and easy to use. WordPress has thousands of great features which is easily customized and user-friendly. Drupal provides plenty of features but one needs to create the […]

Elixir Programming Language – The Smart Programming Language

Lately, a lot of attention has been gathering over Elixir, one of the latest programming languages. What is Elixir? Elixir is a functional, concurrent language built on the Erlang VM with syntax close to the Ruby programming language. Apart from Ruby, Elixir is a language that is inspired by the syntax and concepts of various […]

Do’s & Don’t of JMeter

What is JMeter? JMeter is an open-source Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. JMeter is an Apache project used by a large open-source community. Being a part of Apache, JMeter has comprehensive protocol coverage and scripting capabilities. What can you do with JMeter? JMeter is used to test performance both […]