Background Tasks
I'm using some weather rss feeds in a web site. The feeds are updated once every hour and cached in a local file. My problem is that every time the weather report is updating I get a long wait (not that long.. 2 or 3 secs) before the page is displayed.
This happens becauses the teplate engine that parses the page is waiting for the weather section to be parsed and cached. Is there a ay I can start the weather parsing as a background thread and return immediatly to the template engine to continue to parse the page? And if so How?
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