As Stuart eluded to in his summary of his adventures in 2006, I spent the majority of the year as the Development Lead for HMV working on their Digital Download Platform – we achieved a huge amount in 11 months (hence why I've been so quiet here); several updates to the HMV Digital Player, we created a new permanent music download store and finally a Media Centre Online Spotlight Store (I'm sure Richard Griffin will blog about this at some point as it was his "baby").
I'm particularly proud of the permanent music download store – we set out to create a rich Web 2.0 application which delivered a simple and interesting music purchasing experience. Much kudos goes to Mike Lewis for his designs and Max Choong for his User Experience work and the dedication of the HMV developers involved. We made the decision early on that we would use Atlas (now ASP.NET AJAX) to deliver the rich interactivity and today Rory pointed out that the site is featured as part of the ASP.NET AJAX Showcase.