I'm in the "winding down" phase of my time here in Noumea. One of my cornerstone achievements is migrating a buggy MS Access app into a shiny new MVC3 (and then MVC4) web application. I've been working on it off and on for most of my time here (maybe 18 months) and one of my co-workers asked me to document some of the design decisions. The app kind of grew organically, so I don't have a software spec to point to like I would have had at my prior engagements. I felt a series of blog posts would be an appropriate way of documenting this. It's an open source app, so the blog posts are my defense when someone digs into the app and finds some awful hack that migrated from a short-term fix to a permanent solution. I've got nothing more today, but next time I'll dig into the choice of data access layer. TUBS on GitHub