Our client wanted an customized e-commerce system that would allow individual dealers to present an array of products to their customers in a customized storefront in a controlled environment.  The products would be supplied by vendors who could self-register...

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When our client, a major discount airline, ran a promotional sale, the traffic they received was staggering.  In fact, it usually brought their servers crashing down, which caused their call centers to become flooded, which ulitmately meant LOST SALES...

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Our client needed to integrate a high-availabiltiy ASP.NET application with a 3rd party fulfillment system (PERL/CGI), each running at a different data center.  It was unacceptable to have a user sign-in in two separate places...

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Our client had an existing ASP.NET application and needed to add support for French-speaking customers, and eventually, other languages as well.  Since web applications use multiple technologies, each of which may display text to directly to the user, localization is a detailed task...

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AJAX is a technology that is becoming the new standard for web application user interface design.  It allows the server to update information on a web page without having to re-load the page.  Where appropriate, we recommend this technology to our clients...

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Our client needed a solution for a set of web applications.  The solution would "silently" log all application-specific errors and all HTTP errors to the database.  If the database was not available, it would write to the file system...

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As powerful as web services (link to blog post) can be, it is still a relatively new technology with standards that are evolving rapidly -- sometimes a little too rapidly...

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