1. We decided to create a new build definition that will run tests remotely and publish test results to the TFS.
2. To run tests remotely we decided to use Powershell with invoke-command -computername to run powershell script which can call NUnit.
3. To be able to publish NUnit’s test results, an xslt tranformation is needed which can be taken from nunit4teambuild.codeplex.com

I will write separate posts for each of this steps in a short time as there were some challenges on each step.

The Keep-Alive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent connection feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long-lived HTTP sessions which allow multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection. In some cases this has been shown to result in an almost 50% speedup in latency times for HTML documents with many images. (source)

Apache configuration:

KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout  5

Before KeepAlive:

http://gdestop.ru:

http://gdestop.ru/adler:

http://gdestop.ru/anapa/view/492:

Before KeepAlive:

http://gdestop.ru:

http://gdestop.ru/adler:

http://gdestop.ru/anapa/view/492:

For some pages enabling KeepAlive worked out better fot some worse, but generally it’s recommended to enable KeepAlive. My additional advice is to monitor server’s resource usage after each reconfiguration.

First, one needs to enable mod_gzip for Apache (I’m using it) and configure it the proper way. Usually it’s reasonable to compress text content such as css or js files, as well as html response. Compressing images is usually considered as waste of CPU, so we should not allow it.

Here is my mod_gzip configuration file (thanks to this post):

mod_gzip_on                   Yes
mod_gzip_can_negotiate        Yes
mod_gzip_static_suffix        .gz
AddEncoding              gzip .gz
mod_gzip_update_static        No
mod_gzip_command_version      '/mod_gzip_status'
mod_gzip_temp_dir             /tmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles       No
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size    300
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size    500000
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size   60000
mod_gzip_min_http             1000
mod_gzip_handle_methods        GET POST
mod_gzip_dechunk              Yes
mod_gzip_send_vary            On

#Files and items to compress
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.html$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.htm$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.js$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.js
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.faces
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.css$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.jsp$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.jsp

mod_gzip_item_include         uri        \.jsp$
mod_gzip_item_include         uri        \.jsp

mod_gzip_item_include         handler    \.*
mod_gzip_item_include         handler    \.*$

mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/html$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/html
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/plain
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/plain$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/xml$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/css$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/javascript$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/javascript
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^application/x-javascript$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^application/javascript$

also this file has to be included in the apache configuration file by using the Include statement. To make a django application sending compressed response, the middleware list must contain django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware in settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
	'django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware',
        'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
...
)

After doing that a Firebug can be used to see that content is compressed by the response headers:

Now lets run TestWebPage against my key pages from the previous post:

Before gzip

http://gdestop.ru:

http://gdestop.ru/adler:

http://gdestop.ru/anapa/view/492:

After gzip:

http://gdestop.ru:

http://gdestop.ru/adler:

http://gdestop.ru/anapa/view/492:

So, we have very good results for the root page, and resort’s page. Hotel’s page did get such a good boost because when I moved all common scripts to CDN, they became compressed by CDN.

http://gdestop.ru:

http://gdestop.ru/adler:

http://gdestop.ru/anapa/view/492:

Not the best results though, but I really did not care much about client side optimization. All scripts were hosted locally and let’s see how things change if I move common scripts (jQuery, jQuery Ui, YUI) to CDN. I decided to use Yandex CDN http://api.yandex.ru/jslibs/ as for Russia I believe this is the most appropriate.

http://gdestop.ru:

http://gdestop.ru/adler:

http://gdestop.ru/anapa/view/492:

As we can see, moving to CDN made 30% faster first view for the root page and hotel’s which is a really great result for such a little effort.

To be continued…

//javascript

var _Busy = false;

function setBusy(flag) {
    _Busy = flag;
}

function isBusy() {
    return _Busy;
}

$(document).ajaxStart(function () {
    setBusy(true);
});

$(document).ajaxStop(function () {
    setBusy(false);
});

//C# - selenium wrapper

public void WaitForUiReady()
{
    _selenium.WaitForCondition("selenium.browserbot.getUserWindow().isBusy() == false", PageLoadTimeOut);
}

namespace WebUI.Extensions
{
    public static class LabelExtensions
    {
        public static MvcHtmlString LabelForEx(this HtmlHelper helper, Expression> expression)
        {
            var metaData = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(expression, helper.ViewData);

            string htmlFieldName = ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression);
            string labelText = metaData.DisplayName ?? metaData.PropertyName ?? htmlFieldName.Split('.').Last();            

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(labelText))
                return MvcHtmlString.Empty;

            var label = new TagBuilder("label");
            label.Attributes.Add("for", helper.ViewContext.ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldId(htmlFieldName));

            bool isRequired =
                metaData.ContainerType.GetProperty(metaData.PropertyName)
                    .GetCustomAttributes(typeof (RequiredAttribute), false)
                    .Length == 1;

            if (isRequired)
                label.Attributes.Add("class", "required");

            label.SetInnerText(labelText);
            return MvcHtmlString.Create(label.ToString());
        }
    }
}

label.required:after {
    color: red;
    content: "*";
}

<%= Html.LabelForEx(model => model.FieldName)%>

View:

.*
C:\Program Files (x86)\SourceGear\DiffMerge\DiffMerge.exe
/title1=%6 /title2=%7 %1 %2

Merge:

.*
C:\Program Files (x86)\SourceGear\DiffMerge\DiffMerge.exe
/title1=%6 /title2=%8 /title3=%7 /result=%4 %1 %3 %2

if (is_category())
{
	list($dummy, $categoryRelative) = split("category", $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);

	$category_id = get_cat_ID( single_cat_title("", false) );
	$category_link = get_category_link( $category_id );

	list($dummy, $correctCategoryRelative) = split("category", $category_link);

	if ($categoryRelative != $correctCategoryRelative)
	{
		header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
		header('Location: '.$category_link);
		exit();
	}
}

This is a really quick code — if you can suggest a better solution, please do!

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'sort_rss' );

function sort_rss( $notused )
{
	global $wp_query;
	if( is_feed() )
	{
		$wp_query->set( 'orderby', 'ID' );
	}
}

Есть идеи получше? Поделитесь в комментариях!