Category Archives: Helicon Ape

Web Caching: what is it?

What is that and what’s it for? Web cache is a vital instrument to build lightning-fast web apps. Web cache stores HTTP responses that may be provided to the user without making a request to the server, i.e. no ASP/PHP … Continue reading

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Tuning WordPress with Helicon Ape on IIS7 (permalinks, browser/server caching, compression)

WordPress is a highly popular and rapidly growing open source CMS providing powerful blog-designing facilities. Accounting for its popularity we decided to write an article in which we’ll show how to optimize, speed up, prettify WordPress operation using Helicon Ape. So, … Continue reading

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Helicon Ape 1.0.0.12 – firm step ahead!

Pretty much time has elapsed since the release of the first public build of Helicon Ape (1.0.0.10). We’ve made every effort to spend this time as efficiently as possible to make you a small Christmas gift. And here it is … Continue reading

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URL-rewriting basics and map-files application

Lack of understanding of basic URL-rewriting concepts often leads to the problems with rules-writing. So we decided to give a brief and simple explanation of some general concepts. URL-rewriting allows to substitute real (often ugly) URLs with pretty ones and … Continue reading

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How to enable mod_rewrite in Helicon Ape

Hope you’ve already installed Helicon Ape and are ready to have a look at it. So, let’s start!

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How we created Helicon Ape logo:)

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Helicon Ape review by Bill Staples (from Microsoft)

Bill Staples – General Manager of the Web Platform and Tools engineering teams (including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer, Media Server and Commerce Server) – gives a brief overview of NEW Helicon Tech product – Helicon Ape: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/03/apache-emulation-for-iis-by-helicon-tech.aspx

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