Every December, Web Performance guru Stoyan Stefanov (@stoyanstefanov) corrals folks around the web performance community to collect insights and best practices on building faster websites and services. The “Web Performance Calendar” grows by one blog post per day throughout the month.

This year, I was honored to be asked to participate. My post on some of the ways in which you can use Fiddler to optimize website performance can be found here: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/building-faster-sites-and-services-with-fiddler/.

Happy Holidays!

-Eric Lawrence

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Eric Lawrence

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Are you in New York City on Tuesday, January 29th? If so, please consider joining me, Telerik Developer Evangelist Phil Japikse, and Telerik Insider Steve Bohlen for another Breakfast at Telerik event!

If you’re not familiar with them, Breakfast at Telerik events are half-day free events where you show up, get some coffee and bagels (or similar food), hang out and get a few sessions on hot topics of the day. We close up by 11:00 or 11:30, which means you’re back to your workspace by lunch—this makes it an easy pitch for your boss or co-workers

We’ve done ...

Note: The following content is excerpted from my recently published Fiddler book.

While it’s currently a Windows-only tool, you can still use Fiddler to debug traffic from Apple’s iOS-based devices if you have a Windows-based PC to run Fiddler on, and a Wi-Fi connection shared between that PC and your iOS device. The steps aren’t hard, and this configuration gives you a powerful way to debug iPad, iPod, and iPhone traffic.

Configure Fiddler

To configure Fiddler, click Tools > Fiddler Options > Connections and check the box labeled Allow remote computers to connect. You will need to restart ...

[Updated: Fixed grammar foul on ‘Tenants’ vs. ‘Tenets’.]

2012 is drawing to a close, and apparently all the worry about the Mayan calendar not extending past today is thankfully misplaced!

The ending of a year is a good time for some introspection, and some thinking about what’s in store for the next year. Lots of smart folks in the testing field have their own opinions about what we’ll see (or won’t!) next year, but here are a few of my thoughts. Keep in mind this list is totally in line with my own very opinionated biases!

Whole Team Testing

This ...

Last month, I announced that Telerik designers had created a variety of new logo proposals for Fiddler, and that we were looking to the Fiddler community to select their favorite.

A month later, thousands of votes have been cast, and while the contest was close, a winner emerged-- candidate #2:

While I thought each of the proposals had merit, I’m delighted with this choice. My favorite aspect of this logo concept is that it recalls both the edge of a fiddle (violin) and the open curly-brace that’s so common in software and web development:

Of course, ...

12 days. Two user groups, three conferences, two days of training/coaching for a customer, five customer site visits, one interview, several community engagements.

I’m pretty sure I’m missing something there, but that’s a fairly accurate summary of my trip to India these last two weeks. Our country manager, Abhishek Kant, lined up an extremely full itinerary (because I told him to!) for my extended trip. We spent a lot of time having great conversations with customers, other organizations, community members, and each other.

India’s an amazing place, and I’ll have a post about the more personal aspects of my ...

Hi everyone!

So the initial cycle of four workshops just ended! A big "THANK YOU" to all who attended. In the span of four weeks we covered four topics:

• How to Record a Login Test
• How to automate HTML popups
• How to automate HTML frames
• How to extend Test Studio (i.e. Test Studio plugins)

Did you miss any of those "How to"s ?

Not to worry - we have them up on Telerik TV so you can check them out right here. These videos were recorded live during the actual workshops sessions. 

Personally, I'm happy with the way the ...

Our engineering and testing crew has been hard at work to get the latest release of Test Studio out the door! Test Studio 2012 R2 SP1 is now ready for you to download and install!

Our service packs generally focus on bugfixes and under-the-cover enhancements; however, this release has some really exciting new features. Two of my personal favorites are searching within a project or test, and Silverlight/WPF scrolling of elements via the UI.

First off, search. Ease of navigation through a large test suite or test is a very tedious task. There’s also a discoverability issue if ...

Our brand new SP release (2012.R2 SP1) has just been made available on our website. Go ahead and download it from your Telerik account if you haven't done so already. It introduces a lot of improvements and fixes to the product to make your user experience better. Here's the full list in case you're interested.

One of the new things we've introduced really stands out (when you consider this is not a major release). It's something that has been heavily requested by our customers. Can you guess what it is? (hint: refer to the title of this blog post). That's right! You ...

Another year, another award! We consider the Community Choice awards the Oscars of our industry, as it is the people using the technology that recognize the industry’s best and brightest. To be recognized in 19 categories – ranging from charts and graphics tools to CMS, testing and more – is something we take great pride in. It is our mission to deliver more than expected and this recognition is a testament to the hard work our teams put in day in and day out, ensuring our customers are getting the best tools on the market to address their individual needs.

Gold

• Best charting ...