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Getting Started with Windows Server AppFabric Cache | Wade Wegner

Getting Started with Windows Server AppFabric Cache

Posted by Wade on Friday, August 13, 2010 · 2 Comments

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I struggled today to find a good “Getting started with Windows Server AppFabric Cache” tutorial – either my search fufailed me or it simply doesn’t exist. Nevertheless, I was able to piece together the information I needed to get started.

I recommend you break this up into three steps:

• Installing Windows Server AppFabric
• Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Cache
• Testing Windows Server AppFabric Cache with Sample Apps

I think this article will serve as a good tutorial on getting started, and we can refer back to it as the basis for more advanced scenarios.

Installing Windows Serve AppFabric

1. Get the Web Platform Installer.
2. Once it is installed and opened, select Options.
   
3. Under Display additional scenarios select Enterprise.
   
4. Now you’ll see an Enterprise tab. Select it, and choose Windows Server AppFabric. Click Install. This will start a multi-step process for installing Windows Server AppFabric (which in my case required two reboots to complete).
   

Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Cache

1. Open the Windows Server AppFabric Configuration Wizard (Start –> Windows Server AppFabric –> Configure AppFabric).
2. Click Next until you reach the Caching Service step. Check Set Caching Service configuration, select SQL Server AppFabric Caching Service Configuration Store Provider for the configuration provider, and clickConfigure.
   
3. Check Create AppFabric Caching Service configuration database, confirm the Server name, and specify aDatabase name. Click OK.
   
4. When asked if you want to continue, click Yes.
   
5. You will receive confirmation that your database was created and registered.
   
6. On the Cache Node step, confirm the selected port nodes.
   
7. You will be asked to continue and apply the configuration settings; select Yes.
   
8. On the last step you’ll click Finish.
9. Open up an elevated Windows PowerShell window.
10. Add the Distributed Cache administration module

    Import-Module DistributedCacheAdministration

11. Set the context of your Windows PowerShell session to the desired cache cluster with Use-CacheCluster. You can run this without parameters to use the connection parameters provided during configuration.

    Use-CacheCluster

12. Grant your user account access to the cache cluster as a client. Specify your user and domain name.

    Grant-CacheAllowedClientAccount domainusername

13. Verify your user account has been granted access.

    Get-CacheAllowedClientAccounts

14. Start the cluster.

    Start-CacheCluster

Testing Windows Server AppFabric Cache with Sample Apps

1. Grab a copy of the Microsoft AppFabric Samples, which are a series of very short examples.
2. Extract the samples locally.
3. Open up CacheSampleWebApp.sln (..SamplesCacheCacheSampleWebApp).
4. Right-click the CreateOrder.aspx file and select Set As Start Page.
5. Hit F5 to start the solution.
6. Confirm that the cache is functioning by creating a sample order, getting the sample order, and updating the sample order.

Once you accomplish these three steps, you’ll have the basis for building more complex caching solutions.

I hope this helps!

Source :Getting Started with Windows Server AppFabric Cache | Wade Wegner

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Building Custom WordPress Theme

This is the Chapter II of the Complete WordPress Theme Guide series. This chapter will show you how to build a custom WordPress theme. Although the Codex site provides very good documentations on how to create a theme, but I find it too complicated for a beginner. In this tutorial, I will explain the basics of how WordPress theme works and show you how to convert a static HTML template into a theme. No PHP skill is required, but you need Photoshop and CSS skills to create your own design.

1. The Blog Frontend

Before you start, let's take a look at the WordPress default theme and see how it is structured. Take note of the elements (header, post title, search form, navigation, footer, etc.).

Default Frontpage (index.php)

Default Single (single.php)

2. Photoshop Mockups

Based on the information gathered from the default theme, design a Photoshop mockup of your blog. Here I'm using GlossyBlue, one of my free WordPress themes, as an example. Download the demo.zip to see the Photoshop file.

3. HTML + CSS

After the PSD design is done, create a static HTML+CSS template of each page. You can use my GlossyBlue HTML files in the demo.zip to follow this tutorial. Extract the zip and take a look at the index.html, single.html, and page.html. Later in the tutorial, I will use these HTML files and convert them into a theme.

Why Create a Static HTML File First?

Mainly because it will make the development process a lot easier. I usually create a HTML file for every template that I need, test it across all browsers, validate both HTML and CSS markups, then all I have to do is cut & paste the WordPress code. By doing so, I don't have to worry about HTML or CSS bugs during my theme making process.

4. How WordPress Theme Works

If you go the default theme folder (wp-content/themes/default), you should see many PHP files (called template file) and one style.css file. When you are viewing the front page, WordPress actually uses several template files to generate the page (index.php <<header.php, sidebar.php, and footer.php).

For more details, check out Site Architecture and Template Hierarchy at Codex.

5. Duplicate The Template Files

Copy the GlossyBlue HTML folder into the wp-content/themes folder. Then, go to thedefault theme folder, copy the comments.php and searchform.php file to theglossyblue folder.

6. Style.css

Go to the WordPress default theme folder, open the style.css file. Copy the commented code at the top and paste it to the GlossyBlue style.css file. Change the theme name and the author information as you desire.

7. Splitting The Files

Now you need to understand where to split the file into several files: header.php,sidebar.php, and footer.php. The image below shows a simplified version of my indexfile and how the markups should split.

8. Header.php

Open the index.html file. Cut from the top to where the ends, paste it in a new PHP file, and save the file as header.php.

Go to the default theme folder, open the header.php. Copy and replace the tags where it requires PHP code (Template Tag):