Author: Ryan Donovan
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Op-Ed: My Take on Apple WWDC 2019
For years, I have observed Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference from the sidelines purely as an enthusiast. Since moving to Hootsuite, I can now definitively state that I have a proverbial horse in this race – as we publish multiple applications on the iOS App Store. Hence, this year I…
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A Summer of Photography with the Canon 1DX Mark II
Well, summer is over this week officially. And so is Sitecore Symposium and MVP Summit 2016 and the mad rush that goes with delivering multiple enterprise software releases and producing content for events like that. Likewise drawing to a close is my first season with the Canon 1DX Mark II.…
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My Sojourn with Android
I am a global traveler, spending a significant amount of my time in our Ottawa, ON; Copenhagen, DK; and Brussels, BE offices combined with a fair bit of time in the United Kingdom. Being connected is part of my job, which means having a local mobile plan is a must.…
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Windows 10 and the Surface: Winning Me Back
To celebrate the 30th birthday of Windows, I figured it was time to share my own thoughts on the operating system. With the Threshold 2 build of Windows 10 (build 10586) and the third generation of Surface devices (Surface Pro 3, Surface 3 LTE), Microsoft is winning me back. For…
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An Almost 50-year Old Bentley and the RROC Fall Tour
Driving 1,200 miles in a week in a British car that rolled off the production line ~49 years ago may seem like a crazy thing to do. But it’s not considering the car – a 1966 Bentley T1 – and the event, which was the Fall Tour of the Rolls-Royce…
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Misadventures in Home Networking (or creating house-wide 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz coverage)
One of the perils of having a large square footage house built in the 1980s is that it is impossible to get WiFi coverage from a single access point. And there is no Ethernet wiring in the walls. This is the tale of how I actually got this problem reliably…
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Home WiFi Misadventures
The point of this post is to hopefully save any reader the aggravation I just went through over the last several hours coupled with the years of missed performance. The Topology: The main access point is an Apple Airport Extreme 802.11ac access point connected to a Comcast cable modem at…
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Sitecore Commerce lives (in between many travels)
I realize I’ve been far quieter with respect to blogging than I had intended. As I get ready to head off on another trip (because 101.5K miles flown this year isn’t enough), my long layover at Chicago O’Hare gave me a chance to reflect on just how fast the last…
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For US Travelers, EMV Can’t Arrive Soon Enough
Most of the rest of the world has had EMV for years. For example, I had it from the time I moved to Canada in Winter 2008. Just what on earth is EMV? It is the chip/PIN support on your MasterCard and Visa credit cards that allow you to make…
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Lots of Good Stuff from Build and Beyond
So far, Microsoft has done a very good job of impressing me the last week. In fact, I have seen some of the best decision-making out of the company in years. Although a lot of this may be due to One Microsoft and other forces already in play, some credit…