Like a lot of people most of my development the last few years has been spent on web development. Over the last 6 years I have been involved with the development, design or management of dozens of web applications. Some of my favorites were ecommerce startups that did not survive the dot-com shakeout. These included GHWine.com, Alimente.com and too many others.

At Inktel we develop custom transaction oriented applications for things like fulfillment, CRM, ecommerce, billing, OLAP stores and call center applications for clients including Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Orient Cruise Lines, Verizon, Sprint, BellSouth, Optima Direct, First USA, Proctor & Gamble, Disney and many others.. Most of these are internal applications and cannot be shared publicly. We are redeveloping these applications to consolidate disparate applications written in PICK, Perl, C, Visual basic, ASP and Java as ASP.NET applications written primarily in Visual Basic.NET. We are also actively pursuing speech application development, which, architecturally shares a development structure with web development.

Visual Fire was an ecommerce development company, we did ecommerce development for hire as well as application development, DVD & CD-ROM development and consulting. The primary technologies there were ASP & MS Site Server, Oracle, WebSphere, BEA and J2EE, Spruce and Director.

LawCommerce we developed and managed LawCommerce.com, AllBusiness.com and several Lexis Nexis web offerings. These included online training and marketplace offerings as well as research and purchasing services. Most of this was written as ASP or ASP.NET.

Personally, I prefer development in Object Oriented, C syntax languages versus scripting languages. I tend to do my own development exclusively in J2EE or C++ but have recently gotten into C# which I think is a great language. I am working on a new Enterprise Framework which will be deployed to developers as a Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Template Project. The framework and associated Visual C# building blocks are based on custom classes and the Microsoft Application Blocks.