To finish out my misadventures in home networking, I wanted to capture the process to add a second site and setup the site-to-site VPN. It was less than obvious. Preparing Your First Site The first thing one needs to do is prepare the first site. This involves enabling Multi-Site Management and then configure the USG... Continue Reading →
Weekend Project: Using a Nest Hub Max to Access GSuite + Control a Nest Home
One of my long weekend projects was to be able to use a Nest Hub Max to access my GSuite work calendar and reminders as well as control my smart home utilizing my personal GMail and Nest Account. Google has said that this is supported for a while, but it took quite a bit of... Continue Reading →
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. I can unequivocally say this... Continue Reading →
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 Owner's club - held throughout... Continue Reading →
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 resolved such that there is... Continue Reading →
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 1GB/s. The access point is connected to... Continue Reading →
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 few months have gone since... Continue Reading →
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 purchases via PIN versus swipe... Continue Reading →
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 also certainly goes to Satya... Continue Reading →
Time for 2014
My New Year's resolutions (in no particular order): Have fun building awesome products that delight customers and move markets (I'm not going to miss M&A mode - that's for sure...) More time for hobbies (which have been sadly neglected) - including photography, cars, and writing More quality time with family and friends (also neglected as... Continue Reading →