Skills
We primarily work with the Microsoft .NET stack of technologies:
Microsoft .NET 2.0 - 4.5
C# & VB.NET
- Generics
- LINQ, Lambda expressions and the Expression API
- Task Parallel Library
- Regular Expressions
ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms and Web API
- Designing Scalable Architecture
- Development of fast-loading, maintainable & semantic pages
- State management
- Authentication methods
- Web Application Security
- Data access with ADO.NET, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework
- ASMX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and REST Web services
Web Technologies
HTML & CSS
- Cross browser W3C valid HTML variants
- HTML 5 sematic markup
- Accessibility - WAI ARIA landmarks
- CSS 3
- DTD, XML, XSD, XSLT and XPath
IIS 5, 6 & 7
- MIME type configuration
- Application configuration & deployment
- Application Pool configuration
- Authentication and Access Management
JavaScript and libraries
Very thorough knowledge of ECMAScript and common JavaScript engine implementations
- Cross browser DOM scripting / DHTML
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jQuery
- Plugin Authoring
- Thorough knowledge of library internals
- Patterns for managing large scale RIA applications
- AJAX, JSON & JSONP
- Unobtrusive JavaScript
- Progressive Enhancement
- Graceful Degradation
- Inheritance and Reusability patterns
SQL Server
Database Design & Development
Comprehensive experience with:
- Design & Development of relational databases
- Data normalisation, indexing and key strategies
- Stored procedures & User Defined Functions
- Check constraints and triggers
- Security and access rights configuration
- Performance tuning and profiling
Reporting & Integration Services
Comprehensive knowledge of:
- Report Generation
- Integration package development
- ETL processes
- Deployment
In addition to the core offerings, we also have experience with a number of other libraries and frameworks from Microsoft and third parties
Other Microsoft and 3rd Party Offerings
A rich platform encourages a vibrant open source community and the .NET platform is no exception. Often blanketed under the term ALT.NET, the maturity and stability of some open source projects make them a great viable alternative to products coming from Redmond; Sometimes the best ideas don't always come from Microsoft.
We have a wealth of experience with a number of popular tools, libraries and frameworks:
ALT.NET
.NET Open Source
Solid knowledge of:
ASP.NET MVC Open Source
Comprehensive experience with:
Not all projects are greenfield and can use the latest and greatest versions of tools and frameworks. For these occasions, it helps that we have experience with the following legacy technologies:
Legacy technologies
- Visual Basic 6 COM
- Visual Basic for Applications
- MS Office Automation
- Classic ASP 3.0 (VBScript)
In addition to Microsoft technologies, we like to keep a close eye on the following:
Other tools & frameworks
Ruby
The Ruby and Ruby on Rails communities are continuously pushing new ideas and techniques in the web technology space. We like to stay on the bleeding edge of new ideas with