BT BEST

These days, all around the world are talking about how to save the energies, how to make our places greener. Big brands are making their products more environmental friendly. BT BEST is a web app, which helps small business to evaluable how ‘green’ they are. A 60 pages PDF report will be provided to give them fully green advices.

It took me 2 months in total to build this app. 2 weeks studied on .NET, and the rest of the time do the programming. It has been the largest, and most successful project in my team, opps! also the most difficult one, in terms of the project mangement, communications, deployment etc. But all of these come out as a pretty good result eventually.

Technologies have been used in this app:

• NET 2.0 – the lasted version is 3.5, now you know why is difficult!
• Jquery – still my favorite Ajax library
• Google visualization API – perfect for genrating cool looking data charts
• PDFSharp – an open source .NET plugin, really handy for making PDF files

My experiences show .NET is a powerful framework, and it’s quick to learn if you know Object-Oriented programming well. C# is just a simple copy of Java, no hugh differences in term of the syntax.  Like other MVC framework, .NET done a good job to separate the business logic from the presentations. Make it quicker and easier for development. The only drawback is, the SDK is not free! and the Windows Server cost a lot of money to get the licenses. That makes me or my company less likely to use it for another project.