Project Silk for all your HTML web application needs

A colleague of mine pointed out this white paper article that Microsoft have kindly put together, which appears to be a full overview on how to construct a web site in this day an age.

"Guidance for building cross-browser web applications with a focus on client-side interactivity. These applications take advantage of the latest web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 along with modern web technologies such as jQuery, Internet Explorer 9, and ASP.NET MVC3"

http://silk.codeplex.com/

You can also download it all in pdf format from the following link

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27290

Using Apache benchmark to load test your web site

You can download the apache web server, then simply look inside the zip file for ab.exe.

E.g. to load test your site with 10 concurrent requests use the following command line...

>ab.exe -n 10 -c 10 http://localhost/mywebsite

For more information see 8.15mins into this video link...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2012-the-Netherlands/2287