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FC Twente beats Roda to stay top in Dutch league – SI.com

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ajax - Google News at 4:08 pm on Saturday, October 31, 2009

Reuters UK
FC Twente beats Roda to stay top in Dutch league
SI.com
The next two teams, Ajax and Feyenoord, meet Sunday. Ajax has 26 points, three more than Feyenoord. Defending champion AZ Alkmaar moved up to sixth with 18
Twente and PSV set the pace after narrow victoriesReuters UK
Eredivisie: Twente keep up impressive form – EuropeESPN
Eredivisie round-upSkySports

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Bargains Can Be Found In 85-Cent Ajax, $7.2 Billion LBOs – Wall Street Journal (blog)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ajax - Google News at 7:05 pm on Friday, October 30, 2009
Bargains Can Be Found In 85-Cent Ajax, $7.2 Billion LBOs
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Dollar General Corp. was so confident about its prospects that it set an IPO price range even before counting last-minute sales of

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UEFA deducts 3 points from Dinamo Zagreb for fan violence in Europa League – The Canadian Press

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ajax - Google News at 3:31 pm on Friday, October 30, 2009

SkySports
UEFA deducts 3 points from Dinamo Zagreb for fan violence in Europa League
The Canadian Press
The team is scheduled to face Ajax next week and Timosoara in December. Croatian soccer officials expressed dismay with the ruling, particularly because it
Zagreb docked Europe League points after troubleESPN
UEFA punishes Dinamo because of fan hooliganismCroatian Times
Points Deduction For Dinamo Zagreb In Europa LeagueGoal.com
Monsters and Critics.com -Belfast Telegraph -TeleText
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UEFA deducts 3 points from Dinamo for fan violence – USA Today

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ajax - Google News at 9:48 am on Friday, October 30, 2009

Reuters UK
UEFA deducts 3 points from Dinamo for fan violence
USA Today
The team is scheduled to face Ajax next week and Timosoara in December. Croatian football officials expressed dismay with the ruling, particularly because
Zagreb docked Europe League points after troubleESPN
Europa League – Dinamo hit with points penaltyYahoo! Eurosport
UEFA punishes Dinamo because of fan hooliganismCroatian Times
Goal.com -Monsters and Critics.com -Belfast Telegraph
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WebSync: Comet for IIS

Filed under: Uncategorized — Dion Almaer at 5:02 am on Friday, October 30, 2009

The following is a guest post. If you have something to say to the Ajaxian community, please feel free to either link us to your work, or give us a guest posting that goes into detail! Contact us.

My name is Jerod Venema, and I’m excited to write to you about our new Comet server for the Microsoft stack – WebSync. It is written in 100% managed C#, and uses IIS to reach incredibly high user concurrency. Despite being written in C#, we’ve made it easy to integrate other languages as well by pre-building client libraries and allowing generic HTTP requests to send messages.

There are many challenges in getting a Comet server to operate efficiently in any language, and the .NET environment delivers its own set of unique challenges. One of the biggest challenges we faced was how to make IIS “play nice” when scaling to tens of thousands of concurrent HTTP connections and message transactions. A great deal of time was spent minimizing the memory footprint (even to the point of lazy object construction), optimizing libraries, and digging through pages of profiler results. Multi-threading reared its ugly (but powerful) head on more than one occasion as we sought to take maximum advantage of multiple CPU cores while keeping locking and concurrency issues to a minimum. We even ended up writing a new lock-free data structure similar to a linked queue that allows us to perform multiple-writer add/remove operations – very helpful when dealing with large lists of clients and messages. Once all was said and done, we tested on a $500 Acer desktop and saw over 30,000 concurrent users and 25,000 messages per second. (We were pretty pumped when we saw some of those numbers coming through!)

Once we were satisfied with the server’s performance, we set our sights on a JavaScript client. We had originally been using the Dojo Toolkit, but the overhead was more than what we wanted (it rang in at about 90k after compression, but before gzipping), so we wrote our own library that, when compressed and gzipped, comes across the wire at about 8k total (just over 15k before gzipping). We also ran into a slew of cross-browser issues (of course), in particular when dealing with long-lived HTTP connections. A bit of effort, though, and we can now claim the client to be fully compatible with over a dozen browsers, from IE5.5 all the way to the iPhone and Android browsers. Being fans of open-source technology (even in a Microsoft world), we decided to use the Bayeux transport protocol rather than develop our own, so any Bayeux-compliant client can link in to the server.

We also spent some time on making it easy to integrate into non-browser applications. One of the really neat features is the ability to publish data via a simple GET/POST request, so it can integrate into any application that can make a web request, regardless of the language. If you’re writing in PHP or .NET, we’ve made life even easier by writing publishers that wrap up the creation and invocation of the web request into single method calls.

Oh, and we’ve got a hosted version too (WebSync On-Demand), so people with smaller sites who don’t want the cost of hosting their own Comet server can still get all the benefits of a full Comet solution. For the On-Demand solution we’ve also implemented request proxing, which allows developers to direct the low-impact publish and subscribe requests to their server first, so they can pre-process any incoming messages (to add authentication, save messages to a database, etc). And again, for PHP or .NET users, it’s a one-liner to implement.

Anyway, it’s a pretty neat product, easy to get started with, and as I said, we’re pretty excited and proud of it, so check it out including demos or tutorials and let us know what you think!

Zagreb docked Europe League points after trouble – ESPN

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ajax - Google News at 4:19 am on Friday, October 30, 2009

Daily Mail
Zagreb docked Europe League points after trouble
ESPN
Dinamo, who must also play their next two home games in the competition – against Ajax and Timisoara – behind closed doors, have had their points tally in
UEFA punishes Dinamo because of fan hooliganismCroatian Times
Points Deduction For Dinamo Zagreb In Europa LeagueGoal.com
Dinamo Zagreb handed point deduction following crowd troubleMonsters and Critics.com
UEFA.com -Belfast Telegraph -TeleText
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Ajax scrape extra-time Cup win over second tier Dordrech – Reuters India

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ajax - Google News at 10:01 pm on Thursday, October 29, 2009

SkySports
Ajax scrape extra-time Cup win over second tier Dordrech
Reuters India
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) – Ajax Amsterdam's Urby Emanuelson broke the hearts of second division Dordrecht by curling home a freekick in the final
Ajax go through in Dutch CupSkySports
KNVB Beker Thursday Round-Up: Emanuelson Spares Ajax BlushesGoal.com
Ajax sneaks past Dordrecht in final secondsDutchNews.nl
Football365.com -Fifa.com
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Soccer: Ajax scrape extra-time Cup win over second tier Dordrech – New Straits Times

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ajax - Google News at 6:05 pm on Thursday, October 29, 2009

Football365.com
Soccer: Ajax scrape extra-time Cup win over second tier Dordrech
New Straits Times
ROTTERDAM: Ajax Amsterdam's Urby Emanuelson broke the hearts of second division Dordrecht by curling home a freekick in the final minute of extra time to
Ajax go through in Dutch CupSkySports
KNVB Beker Thursday Round-Up: Emanuelson Spares Ajax BlushesGoal.com
EMANUELSON SPARES AJAX BLUSHESFootball365.com
Fifa.com
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