fancydressoutfitters This post is really far overdue - I’ve been pretty busy. This site has been live for quite a while, over a month now at least? The first I heard of this site was when Howard van Rooijen sent a message to the Spark dev group.

In the thread Howard says, among other things:

For those who are interested - here’s a little more info:

- We ran the project using Scrum and delivered in 20 weeks: 10 x 2 week iterations
- It’s based on the S#arp Architecture framework, which we extended to support Spark and ViewModels
- Integrated other OSS projects into the solution the one most relevant to Spark being N2CMS
- Solution performs very well: 1000 concurrent users per web server, generating around 180 pages per second across 2x single quad core 64bit servers.
- The site has a YSlow B Grading.

Very nice. His associate James Broome also has a post talking about their project as it relates to Asp.Net MVC – Separation of concerns amongst team members. You’ve gotta love hearing real-world examples of where UI-centric concerns and coding-centric concerns can work together in the same space at top speed without stumbling over each other’s focus.