Great article Joe. I think I'm finally starting to understand the proper architecture for an application. This article made it clear. Even tho there's nothing essentially new in it -- it just packaged it where it got through my skull.

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Thanks! <p>I'm sorry I didn't get back to you sooner; there is a nasty bug in the forum software that makes the first post to an article invisible to the "Recent Message" view. I get around that by occasionally checking my articles themselves, but this was a pretty old article. I think it's actually kinda cool that something I wrote a year ago is doing you some good! <p>Anyway, I'm glad I was able to help you make some sense of this ever more complex world we live in. <p>Joe