SSW Update - 2012 Retrospective of SSW
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G'day Developers!

I thought I might relfect on how 2012 went at SSW. It really was another great year for SSW with the launch of our new Metro website as well as our new SSW TV site. In 2012, SSW TV went from zero to 30,000 unique visitors – a good start but we still have a long way to go. Our guys and girls at SSW kept performing professionally throughout 2012, building great .Net solutions and business applications.

The SSW project I was most proud of in 2012 was the rewrite of a very large Australian ticketing site, because it was a real challenge and this project had so many new things we hadn’t used in combination before, such as fixed-price with Scrum and it was written with ASP.NET MVC 4 as well as the Telerik Sitefinity CMS. There’s a little bit more work to go before it is released to the public, but it’s looking good.

Our sweetest win of 2012 was with a client who engaged both us and our #1 competitor for a week long trial. They simultaneously gave both companies the same requirements to make sure we could well and truly walk the walk, and in the end SSW came away with the job - so we must have impressed!

So what’s next for SSW, you ask?... (continued)

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There are many tools out there on the market which claim to be enterprise service buses. But only NServiceBus incorporates true service oriented architecture and many years of experience in how to design such systems.

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