With the acquisition of CommerceServer.net by Sitecore, it's nice to finally be out of stealth mode. This project has been the principal occupier of my time for the past many months. For more information, please see the acquisition recap at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/commerce/archive/2013/11/27/acquisition-recap.aspx. Information will continue to be posted on the Commerce Server and Sitecore web sites and... Continue Reading →
How the only surviving Hamilton Metalplane just happened to float by…
Mid-Summer 2013 #9, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. Back in July, in between meetings, I just happened to note a rather curious site. A plane. But rather than flying past, it was sailing north on Lake Washington on barge. Luckily I had my 400m lens on the camera and was able to capture it... Continue Reading →
Misadventures with Windows 8.1 and BootCamp on a MacBook Pro
This weekend, I put Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition 64-bit on a 15" mid-2011 MacBook Pro. It turned out to be much more of a (mis)adventure than I anticipated. What I Tried and Failed My goal was to simply burn a USB-stick installer, put Windows 8.1 on it, and then put the Bootcamp 5 software on... Continue Reading →
My Take: Adobe Creative Cloud, Office 365, Software Subscriptions, and Old Photos
OK, so I am taking the plunge. Sometime before the expiration of the July 31st cut-off for the CS6 migration promotion, I'll be switching to Creative Cloud. Why? Feature-value. I have been playing with an evaluation of Lightroom 5 (which coincidentally is the only product still available on a perpetual license). I'm sold. And now... Continue Reading →
53,402 miles later…
Where has the first half of the year gone? Well, a lot of it has been on a plane or in an airport. Besides that, at work we've shipped 3 major releases of Commerce Server. Business is going great. And I finished up my role in the post-merger integration of Cactus Commerce and Ascentium, handing... Continue Reading →