Productivity: Debugging

In this post, I’ll demonstrate a proposal called Convergence, which attempts to detect targeted attacks against HTTPS traffic—for instance, from within a specific locale or country. Here’s how Convergence works: when the client connects to a HTTPS site, it obtains its certificate. It then consults a set of servers around the world, called notaries, and checks to see whether the site in question is sending the same certificate to all of those servers as well.

JavaScript is a beautifully simple and elegant language.  It puts virtually no restrictions on what you can do; and since it’s a dynamic language, you can modify it on the fly and debug it right in the browser.  However, it’s great forgiving nature can also be...

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.

One of Fiddler’s most-useful but least-used features is its ability to playback previously-captured web-traffic to debug website issues reported by customers “in the field.” In today’s post, I’ll explain the recent Fiddler improvements supporting this scenario.

One of the benefits of Telerik’s support of Fiddler is the opportunity to work with talented design professionals. We’ll be improving Fiddler’s User Interface from end-to-end to expose more of the tool’s power in a clear and elegant manner. Our first step is giving Fiddler a distinctive and professional logo, and here’s where you come in...