James Broome

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 [...]

One of the clear advantages of using the MVC pattern is that it encourages separation of concerns – it doesn’t enforce it by any means, but following the pattern results in a nice clean, maintainable, flexible solution. The architectural advantages of this are documented everywhere, but I also believe that it aids separation of concerns [...]