I just completed one of the best projects to work on to date.
I thoroughly enjoyed working with the SAP team and Daniel was an excellent developer to pair with and challenge me. 
Daniel was open to using different tools such as Subversion and Tortiose SVN. After the first few weeks and sneaker net and USB thumb drives, the project productivity took a leap with the use of SVN. You should have seen his face when our conflicts were merged for us!!!
There was a single case when we needed to manually manage a conflict. This saved days if not weeks of time on the project.
I had the data access layer in place in a single day with SubSonic, but use of this tool was outside the corporate policy so it needed to be replaced with some home grown ADO.NET methods. The amount of hand written code must have also taken weeks to do over the life of the project. Perhaps they will move to LINQ to SQL when they upgrade to VS2008...
But we did keep Subsonic in for versioning the DB and this was another big time saving. I was also very excited to introduce the concept of a mapping layer to handle the simple ORM needs of the project. But it was nice to have a single place for these methods.
We were able to deploy some ajax control toolkit components and the auto suggest text boxes worked very nicely and the server side generation of JSON objects for use on the client was another huge win.
The project architecture was very simple, but a nice seperation of logical layers for the DAL, Service Layer, Web Service Layer, and Web Application. And yes we had test projects using MbUnit!!!! It was an amazing work environment with a friendly and motivated group of people.
I will miss working with Daniel, Bruno, James, Jeff, Aldonna and even Zack! And two of the sweetest girls that I have met, Rebecca and Raquel are awesome.
This was also an interesting assignment as it brought me back to the same building and offices that I started in when I moved to Stamford in 1998. Here are some shots of Tresser blvd, the pit is still there!, the Marriott next store, my view of the LI Sound, and a view over to Sylvan Knoll.
I am extremely excited to see how much more fun the next assignment will be!
