I am pretty picky when it comes to my HTML. OK, a lot picky. Needless to say I don’t care for WYSIWYG HTML editors.  Why are you adding extra paragraph tags everywhere? No, I put that blockquote inside that paragraph for a reason. And so on.

The one that RaccoonBlog comes with is no different. When I go into source mode I expect it to not touch my source. Not cool man!

Recently, a client wanted to know why certain product they had installed was performing so horribly from their overseas office when it worked just fine over here. I had my suspicions but I wanted to confirm it.

So, I had him put in fiddler. If you haven’t heard of this tool, get it now. It will save you a ton of time when debugging any http issue.

Anyway, my suspicions were confirmed:

Wow! 27 SOAP calls to render a single page. From javascript. Looks like someone forgot to read The Fallacies of Distributed Computing. As the UI is responsible for making the calls, my recommendation was to fix it there - just slap a new UI on it. I highly doubt more that one or two SOAP calls would be necessary to render a screen to collect some form input.

Mainly to make sure this is working. You know?