On today's meeting we had two small talks on ASP.NET website optimization and Windows Phone 7 development.
Sergey Kliuev talked about Combres, .NET library which enables minification, compression, combination, and caching of JavaScript and CSS resources for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC web applications. Combres helps your applications rank better with YSlow and PageSpeed. In a brief addition he described MobileCapableRazorViewEngine helper, which helps to develop mobile views for MVC project in a way compatible with upcoming ASP.NET MVC 4.
Sergey Barinov introduced Windows Phone development. Screen of the real mobile device was being captured by HD camera and projected on a big screen; that's why all participants had a possibility to see the application in details. Sergey demonstrated a small demo application showing the workings of toast and tile notification mechanisms. External web site sent these notification types when someone requested a special page, and notifications worked even when application was not in a foreground.
