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Following numerous complaints about response times, I have rewritten brickset.com from scratch using ASP.NET. Initial tests suggest that it is up to 200% quicker serving search results. For now, it looks and behaves much like the old site, but over (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce)
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(...) It takes a couple of minutes just to view the home page, even with the rewrite. Why are you using ASP at all? Why not use Perl, PHP, JSP, or just about *anything* but ASP? --Bill. (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Huw! That's great! I post reviews on brickset.com at least once a week, and I happy to see that response times have speeded up to a decent rate. Just a question here. What sort of additional features might you add to brickshel.com in the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Seems nice and fast, even on my crummy work connection. And speaking as an ASP programmer currently having to write in PHP, ASP is so much better. :) It is especially speedy if run using Chillisoft on Unix James (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Well, it certainly doesn't from here. Perhaps (hopefully) it was a transient thing. (...) ASP.NET is a vast improvement over ASP. I know I will be wasting my breath arguing its virtues compared to JSP/PHP etc. because I suspect you (and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) and (...) I'm glad at least you are noticing an improvement! And, thanks for your reviews, keep then coming. (...) forum (...) I had a play with an ASP.NET chatroom,, but it really didn't work too well. Personally, I don't think there is a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:Gtor8z.293@lugnet.com... (...) Good, another Bill Gates worshipper :-) (fut: off-topic.geek) Huw (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yeah. I mean, look at this! (URL) at 'drtnysey's' review. This does not belong here! And somebody else on the same page seems to think that this is a message board or something. Something needs to be done. John Kruer (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"John Henry Kruer" <jhkruer@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GtpBvD.Cyp@lugnet.com... (...) else (...) Thanks -- I have deleted several of them. If you notice any more, please let me know. I plan to go through them all, but it takes time -- there (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) You mean like one second before I send a request, instead of one second after I send a request? :-) Play well, Jacob -- (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"John Henry Kruer" <jhkruer@yahoo.com> wrote in message (...) else (...) Something has just been done. Reviews are now moderated. We'll stop those juvenile Bionicle-buyers once and for all. Huw (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I normally use Netscape, and it took minutes for the home page to come up, but when I fired up Internet Explorer, it came up fairly quickly. As much as I hate Microsoft for railroading Netscape, there seems to be no way to avoid using Explorer (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) What version of Netscape do you use? I use Mozilla 0.9.8 and came up almost instantly. (Netscape 4.7, otoh, was hopeless.) If you're using a Netscape 6 and seeing this problem, try upgrading to a Mozilla build. (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) There are a couple of html problems on the home page. The one causing the problem is a <table> instead of a </table> near the end, shortly after function ValidatorOnSubmit. When this is fixed, I can load the page in Netscape 4.7 in under 15 (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"John Herre" <jherre@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:GttLro.GyJ@lugnet.com... (...) function (...) 4.7 in (...) Whoops... thanks for spotting that! I have corrected it, and will go through the rest of the home page source code files later on. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ah, that would explain a lot. Netscape 4 is extremely picky about having a </table> for every <table>. If you don't, it will not display the table at all. (...) Netscape 6 is a complete rewrite of Netscape 4, based on the pseudo-open-source (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.publish)
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