James Broome

It’s no secret that I love the Spark view engine. I’ve blogged about it before and nearly two years down the line since I first used it (and a number of production projects later), I still think it’s the best view engine out there for ASP.NET MVC.
In a nutshell, there’s two reasons why I think [...]

I’ve talked a lot recently about the work I’ve been doing at EMC Consulting with Fancy Dress Outfitters. We built a new e-commerce web application using ASP.Net MVC and launched it in 10 x 2 week iterations using Scrum project methodology.
In the aftermath of the project’s success, we were really keen to continue to showcase, [...]

If you’ve been following this blog, or those of my colleagues Howard and Jon, it’s probably been obvious that we love the Spark view engine. We’ve been using it in anger for the last 6 months or so on our latest Asp.Net MVC project and between us we have nothing but praise for it.
I’ve talked [...]

This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows:

Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController
Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the [...]

My colleague Jon George has recently been posting about his experiences of performance tuning our latest web application, built on Asp.Net MVC. His introductory post talks briefly about how we spent a large effort in laying the correct foundations for the project, which have ultimately led to its success. Being the “technical lead who had [...]