PixelMEDIA Inc.

This entry is a slightly updated re-post of an article found on my personal blog.

Recently we had a site that was getting ready to go live, hosted on a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 (IIS7). I won’t bore you with all the details of all the issues we worked through but we had one nasty issue that, as soon as it occurred it brought the server down; 100% CPU usage by the w3wp.exe process and memory usage steadily climbing. Our error logger was catching primarily one xml argument exception (but with a few variations).

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Mobile users tend to be focused on quickly finding answers to burning questions as opposed to simply ’surfing’ the Web as they do on a PC or laptop. Given the smaller resolution and disparate browser capabilities across mobile devices, designing the navigation becomes more difficult.

Not everyone has an iPhone or Blackberry Storm. A lot of users have simple smart phones, requiring careful thought into how deep content lies within the Mobile Experience and how many clicks it takes to get to it. (Read More…)