Spark based e-commerce site goes live...

[Howard van Rooijen]

Hello Spark Community,

I just wanted to let you know that a Spark based e-commerce site has just been released into the wild: 

http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk

And I wanted to say a HUGE thank-you to Louis & the Community for creating such an rich & elegant View Engine that massively simplified our development effort. 

Our team has dedicated front-end (CSS / HTML) developers who have always complained about the constraints and excessive friction WebForms adds to implementing complicated designs. Now they have only have positive things to say about Spark and evangelise that with Spark you can easily create standards-compliant, accessible web applications on the .NET Platform.

James Broome - one of the developers on the team blogged about how ASP.NET MVC and Spark are a winning combination in that they not only allow an architectural separation of concerns, but also allow separation of concerns for the different disciplines within the team:

ASP.NET MVC - Separation of concerns amongst team members

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.

The only feature request we have is to enable Spark to use Velocity Distributed Cache as a backing store for output caching - as we think this would deliver even better performance.

Again, many thanks,

Howard

[Josh Close]

I have to second that thank you! Spark View Engine has made web development fun again. With that, ASP.NET MVC and jQuery, I don't want to ever go back to WebForms, and don't feel the urge to try Rails anymore.

Thanks Louis! Good luck at Microsoft.

[Adam Schroder]

Here three!!

[Louis DeJardin]

Very nice! And thanks. :)

On Oct 8, 3:12 pm, Adam Schroder <adamschro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here three!!
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Josh Close <nar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have to second that thank you! Spark View Engine has made web development
> > fun again. With that, ASP.NET MVC and jQuery, I don't want to ever go back
> > to WebForms, and don't feel the urge to try Rails anymore.
>
> > Thanks Louis! Good luck at Microsoft.
>
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Howard van Rooijen <
> > howard.vanrooi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hello Spark Community,
> >> I just wanted to let you know that a Spark based e-commerce site has just
> >> been released into the wild:
>

> >>http://www. <http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/>fancydressout<http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/>
> >> fitters.co.uk <http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/>

>
> >> And I wanted to say a HUGE thank-you to Louis & the Community for creating
> >> such an rich & elegant View Engine that massively simplified our development
> >> effort.
>
> >> Our team has dedicated front-end (CSS / HTML) developers who have always
> >> complained about the constraints and excessive friction WebForms adds to
> >> implementing complicated designs. Now they have only have positive things to
> >> say about Spark and evangelise that with Spark you can easily create
> >> standards-compliant, accessible web applications on the .NET Platform.
>
> >> James Broome - one of the developers on the team blogged about how
> >> ASP.NET MVC and Spark are a winning combination in that they not only
> >> allow an architectural separation of concerns, but also allow separation of
> >> concerns for the different disciplines within the team:
>

> >> ASP.NET MVC - Separation of concerns amongst team members<http://consultingblogs.emc.com/jamesbroome/archive/2009/08/24/asp-net...>

>
> >> 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<http://www.sharparchitecture.net/>framework, which we extended to support Spark and ViewModels

> >> - Integrated other OSS projects into the solution the one most relevant to

> >> Spark being N2CMS <http://n2cms.com/>