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Is Google’s Page Speed not working fine?

I’ve been making small improvements to a public ASP.NET site that I have and have ran it through Google’s online Page Speed several times. I have a specific problem, but something that really threw me off was that even if I didn’t make any changes and just kept running it time after time (5 minutes intervals) I’d keep getting different scores by +-1 or 2 points. That is just weird in itself. Anyways,

Are unit tests really that useful? [closed]

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Developing Razor Web Pages – Visual Studio and/or WebMatrix?

When I started learning about Web Pages I followed several of the Microsoft tutorials, all of which utilized WebMatrix. I did this until I realized that WebMatrix offered no debugging. Wait? What?? No way. And I quickly moved my Web Pages development to Visual Studio. While there were some things that I thought were nicely done in WebMatrix, I have found nothing that I cannot do in in Visual Studio. Also, unless someone who knows better than me enlightens me, I am vehemently against developing the same project with two different IDEs; It just seems like an unnecessary risk to me.

Why would more CPU cores on virtual machine slow compile times?

[edit#2] If anyone from VMWare can hit me up with a copy of VMWare Fusion, I’d be more than happy to do the same as a VirtualBox vs VMWare comparison. Somehow I suspect the VMWare hypervisor will be better tuned for hyperthreading (see my answer too)