The Revamp!

Bryan and I have been very busy rebuilding the back-end of HardwareArmory to be more scalable. Let me introduce you to a few of my favorite new features:

1. Our application now serializes the objects to XML instead of doing binary serialization. This means clients for alternate OS are now easier to develop.

2. We have scraped SqlMembershipProvider (I know, I know...I will explain below*).

3. I am in the middle of re-working our product mapping engine and product display engine.

4. We have now reached out to a designer!! No more giant, bubbly icons!

* As it turns out, SqlMembershipProvider and WCF from remote applications are just not ready yet. It was super easy to implement system-system internally, but as soon as you start distribution, it becomes a pain in the butt. We had a working solution, so we are going to revert back until the technology catches up without hacking the Gibson.