Pragmantra

... is a tiny company composed of just me, Rob Thijssen. Based in Devon and specialising in Technical Consultancy in the Microsoft arena.

I advise and demonstrate best practice in technical architecture and software development for enterpise application development.

The pragmatic principles of using the right tool for the job and delivering simple solutions for complex problems is what makes Pragmantra stand out from the crowd.

Wise Words

Criticism is something you can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

- Aristotle

Pragmantra is registered in England and Wales as PRAGMANTRA LTD, company number 06153302, VAT Registration Number 942483315.

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Styleshout

The site layout and css templates used on this site are based on a free template from Styleshout. I'm a programmer not a designer --everyone keeps reminding me.

Mono

Mono Powered This site was built in Visual Studio 2008 using Asp.Net and C# 3.5. It is hosted on a Debian, Apache web server using Mono.

I develop in C# because it is simple, powerful, modern and I just like it. I like using generics and I like the flexibility of the language.

The traditional downside to developing web applications on the .Net platform is the associated licensing costs for the various servers required by a typical web application.

This site is a performance and scalability experiment in combining some enterprise functionality (like enterprise library) with an open source hosting environment to see how viable the combination can be.